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(Gallup) Honesty and Ethics Rating of Clergy Slides to New Low

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Kendall Harmon

Americans’ rating of the honesty and ethics of the clergy has fallen to 47%, the first time this rating has dropped below 50% since Gallup first asked about the clergy in 1977. Clergy have historically ranked near the top among professions on this measure, hitting a high rating of 67% in 1985.

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