Rasmussen:

Forty percent (40%) of Catholics say priests should be allowed to get married, while 39% disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Twenty percent (20%) are undecided.

Among all Americans, the findings are much more lopsided. Fifty-five percent (55%) of adults say Catholic priests should be permitted to marry, and just 19% disagree. But just over a fourth of Americans (26%) are not sure.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of evangelical Christians and 54% of other Protestants believe priests should be allowed to marry, as do 58% of all others.

But then Catholics and Protestants practice their faiths in different ways.

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Sixty percent (60%) of women favor letting priests marry, compared to 50% of men.

Both men and women over the age of 40 are more supportive of priests being permitted to marry than those who are younger.