Survey: Six of every 10 Protestant pastors disapprove of Obama

 This just in from the Religion News  Service:  Six out of every 10 Protestant pastors say they disapprove of President Obama’s job performance.

The RNS based this report on a recent LifeWay Research survey.

LifeWay researchers said of the 61 percent who disapprove of Obama’s work, 47 percent disapprove strongly.

The RNS reported that the survey’s findings were released Oct. 21. The survey found that 30 percent of pastors approve of the president’s performance (including 14 percent who strongly approve). Nine percent were undecided.

According to the RNS, when the Southern Baptist-affiliated research group surveyed Protestant pastors about their voting intentions just before the 2008 elections, 20 percent indicated they planned to vote for Obama, compared to 55 percent who planned to vote for GOP candidate John McCain.

“If voting intentions and job approval measure similar things, the president hasn’t made many friends in the pulpits of America’s churches throughout the first year-and-a-half of his presidency,” Ed Stetzer, president of LifeWay Research, told the RNS.