To be fair, when people answer yes to "should the Bible have some influence on US laws" what they mean is "the Bible, as interpreted by my particular sect". Fo

To be fair, when people answer yes to "should the Bible have some influence on US laws" what they mean is "the Bible, as interpreted by my particular sect". Fortunately the number of members of the Republican party who belong to sects that approve of selling your own daughter into slavery is approximately zero, so it is possible to support Biblical influence without being "crazy" or "freely choos[ing] to ignore what pa[r]ts of it you want". Actually a more neutrally phrased question to ask people would be "Does your opinion of the Bible have at least some influence on how you vote?", although there would be no point running that poll as the only possible answer to that question is "Yes". Either you think the Bible is a valid source of moral wisdom, in which case you are more likely to vote for policies which support that morality; or you think it isn't a valid source, in which case you vote for policies which (in at least some cases) oppose that morality. In both cases, the person is voting consistently with their opinion of the Bible, which means believers and non-believers aren't so different after all.