Belief and Life Survey

What is your name (first and last)?

What is your birth year?

What is your sex?

What is your marital status?

What is your race or ethnicity?

What is your religious affiliation?

What is your political affiliation?

Morality cannot be legislated.

Regulations and other barriers to entry into markets for goods and services should be minimized to allow for competition.

All people are not created equal before the law in society. Some groups should have more power, rank, or rights than other groups.

Governments are responsible to ensure that each citizen has the basics of life, including food, shelter, and clothing.

Governments are responsible to ensure that each citizen has an education, health care, and transportation.

The purpose of economic laws in government is to promote equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.

Governments should financially support unprofitable industries to save jobs and stabilize society.

“From each person according to his need and to each person according to his ability.”

Private ownership of land, homes, businesses, and other means of production is essential to a healthy economy.

Governments should prioritize economic equality over economic freedom.

Regulations and other barriers to entry into markets for goods and services should be minimized to allow for competition.

The greatest evil in the world and the universe is suffering and death.

Love is an action more than a feeling. I can choose to love or not.

Though subject to a myriad of influences for good and for ill, people are ultimately responsible for their own actions.

Obstacles and injuries in life are a source of weakness, not strength. They are a curse, not a blessing.

Other people and social and governmental systems control my life more than I do.

Though feelings can come on in an instant, I can control those feelings, control my emotions, and control my mood.

Skills and experience are more important than race, gender, or other factors for setting pay and benefits in a job.

My view of myself is largely determined by others’ views about me.

I hesitate to approach members (talking, touching, dating) of the opposite sex because they may accuse me wrongfully.

What is good for individuals is more important than what is good for society.

I would never forgive someone who deeply hurt me.

People are intrinsically morally bad.

Men and women are responsible to marry for their own benefit and for a stable society.

If physically possible, each married couple is responsible to have enough children to replace themselves for the benefit of themselves and society.

Married couples are better off emotionally, financially, socially, physically, and sexually than single people.

The wife is primarily but not exclusively responsible for caring for the home and children and nurturing the family.

The husband is primarily though not exclusively responsible for the financial well-being of the family.

I would rather share my spouse (in a polygamous but legally married relationship) than stay unmarried for life.

I wish that friends, family, and other trusted people would touch me more.

The primary purpose of sex is to procreate (have children).

Individuals and families are responsible to care for their own children, parents, and extended families, including food, shelter, clothing, education, health care, and transportation.

Doctrine, the details of what a religion teaches, is not important in day to day life.

The rules in my religion should be the laws of my country.

Non-governmental organizations such as churches are responsible to help their members achieve food, clothing, shelter, education, transportation, health care, and other necessities of life.

Religion is a source of comfort to me in trying times.

People who do not follow my religion will not go to heaven/paradise/nirvana/etc. after they die.

I have told other people about my religion with the hope that others will join.

I am spiritual but not religious.

How often do I perform religious duties such as attending services, reading my holy book or other religious writings, and praying?

Miracles, events that are not explainable by modern science, are possible today and have happened in history.