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Americans' feelings toward Mormons are getting warmer


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Americans' feelings and attitudes toward religious groups — including Mormons — are getting warmer and on the rise.

So says a Pew Research Center study titled “Americans Express Increasingly Warm Feelings Towards Religious Groups,”; which was released Wednesday morning.

In surveying 4,248 adults last month, Pew asked participants to give a rating of 0 to 100 for each of nine religious groups and then charted the ratings on a “feeling thermometer.” The “chilly” ratings were scores between 0 and 33, the “warmer” ratings between 67 and 100, and the neutral ratings in between those two.

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