Pat Robertson Says legalizing Marijuana: Not Evangelicals Agree?

Pat Robertson Says legalizing Marijuana: Not Evangelicals Agree?: Last TV Evangelist Pat Robertson in favor of legalizing marijuana, it seems, can not be done with the move to support the vast majority of the other evangelists.

The well-known media figure, a presidential candidate of the Republican Party and the Minister said on Wednesday at the New York Times that the echo - and amplified - the previous statements made about how the drug war has failed. Marijuana, he said this week, should be regarded as legal alcohol offenders illegally locked up with violent criminals, he said.

But some studies show a large evangelical usually do not agree with him. Pew poll of American attitudes on the legalization of cannabis in 2010 showed that while 41 percent of Americans overall, support for 25 percent of white Protestants do. Forty-two percent of mainline Protestants and Catholics support legalization.

News this week met with evangelical magazine Christianity Today, with the headline: ". Pat Robertson think it's time to legalize marijuana"

The well-known evangelical blogger Brett McCracken, editor of Biola Biola University in the said young evangelicals, "laughs Robertson," as a caricature of an evangelist, and will not see him as a role model, even if their cohort would be expected to be more open for the legalization of drugs.

Views on medical marijuana use among American Protestants, however, are different.