“The disparity between Glenn Beck’s favorability ratings and how people feel about him as a religious leader suggests that people are more drawn to him for political reasons than religious ones”

Less than 20 percent of Americans think popular Fox News television host Glenn Beck is the right person to lead a religious renewal movement, a new poll revealed.

Half of respondents said Beck was the wrong person and the remaining people either said they did not know enough about him or declined to respond, according to the Public Religion Research Institute/Religion News Service Religion News Poll released Thursday.

Even among Americans who have a favorable view of Beck, 45 percent said he is the right person to lead a faith movement.

Beck has higher favorability ratings among Republicans (55 percent), white evangelical Protestants (48 percent), and older Americans over the age of 65 (37 percent).

But the group with the highest favorable rating of Beck (79 percent) consists of people who know he is Mormon and who believe Mormons have similar religious beliefs to their own. Within this group, the majority (53 percent) said he is the right person to lead a religious movement.

On the other hand, those who know Beck is Mormon and think Mormons have different religious beliefs than their own have a lower favorable opinion of him (54 percent) and are much less likely to think he should lead a religious movement (28 percent).

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