WASHINGTON ( CNN ) -- The more often Americans go to church , the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists , according to a new survey . The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture rallied on Capitol Hill in March 2008 . More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54 percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is `` often '' or `` sometimes '' justified . Only 42 percent of people who `` seldom or never '' go to services agreed , according to the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life . White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified -- more than six in 10 supported it . People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it . Only four in 10 of them did . The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21 . It did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals , white non-Hispanic Catholics , white mainline Protestants and the religiously unaffiliated , because the sample size was too small . See results of the survey » . The president of the National Association of Evangelicals , Leith Anderson , did not immediately respond to a request for comment . The survey asked : `` Do you think the use of torture against suspected terrorists in order to gain important information can often be justified , sometimes be justified , rarely be justified , or never be justified ? '' Roughly half of all respondents -- 49 percent -- said it is often or sometimes justified . A quarter said it never is . The religious group most likely to say torture is never justified was Protestant denominations -- such as Episcopalians , Lutherans and Presbyterians -- categorized as `` mainline '' Protestants , in contrast to evangelicals . Just over three in 10 of them said torture is never justified . A quarter of the religiously unaffiliated said the same , compared with two in 10 white non-Hispanic Catholics and one in eight evangelicals .
one Americans adults surveyed on use of torture against suspected terrorists . 49 percent of those who go to services at least March 2008 say it 's often or sometimes OK . In survey , people unaffiliated with any religious group were least likely to back torture . President of the National Association of Evangelicals yet to comment on survey .