Star Parker: “Over the last 12 years, the percentage of Americans that think religion is losing influence in American life has increased dramatically. … However, while increasing numbers of Americans feel religion is losing influence, most feel this is a bad thing. … In a survey done by Pew in 2012, 58 percent of Americans said religion is ‘very important’ and only 18 percent said it is not ‘too important’ or ‘not important at all.’ … [W]hy, when Americans think religion is very important, has the percentage of Americans who think religion is losing influence in American life increased almost 40 percent over the last 14 years? … I attribute why … to the law of unintended consequences. Many Americans have been unwittingly supporting policies for more than a half-century that they thought were good ideas and consistent with their values which have been neither. Now more Americans are beginning to appreciate the damage that has been done and how far the nation has strayed from their own sense of right and wrong. … Some say today we have competing views about the role of government. I would say we have competing views about what life is about.”