White Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly want the Bible to be the basis of America’s legal system rather than public opinion, according to a new poll.

That finding is one of several significant and alarming revelations about Christian nationalism in a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

The survey that formed the basis of the report was conducted from Sept. 13 to Sept. 18 among a total of 10,588 adults. It found that 65% of White Evangelical respondents agree that, “If they conflict, Bible should have more influence than will of people on U.S. laws.”

That viewpoint was drastically different compared to the rest of survey respondents. Just 27% of all participants said they agreed with that statement. Only seven percent of non-Christians (religious and non-religious) agreed, as did only 21% of Catholic respondents and 24$ of White Protestants who were not Evangelical.

The survey found sharp divisions among political partisans on the topic, as well, with only 16% of Democratic leaning adults saying they wanted the Bible to be more important than public opinion. Forty percent of Republican respondents preferred this.

White Evangelicals and Republicans were also much more likely to agree with the statement that the United States should be a “Christian nation,” with 67% of Republicans saying this and 81% of White Evangelicals agreeing. By contrast, just 16% of non-Christians wanted America to be a Christian nation, as did 29% of Democratic respondents.

The study found slightly more agreement about whether the United States was originally intended to be a Christian nation. Eighty-one percent of White Evangelicals believed this to be true while 76% of Republican respondents did. Only 47% of Democrats said America was intended to be a Christian nation; 44% of non-Christians agreed.

Historians of the early United States have overwhelmingly reported that most of the founders of the United States did not believe the Bible to be literally true and that they intended for religious disputes to be settled outside of governance structures. But this has not stopped the far-right religious movement that began taking over the Republican Party in the 1960s from insisting otherwise.

Researchers on right-wing extremism have warned for decades that Christian nationalist activists have been trying to take over public schools and force them to teach falsehoods about America’s founding.

Though White Evangelicals appear to have wildly divergent views of Christian nationalism compared to the rest of the public, their opinions appear to be not that much different from many Black Protestants, according to the Pew Research study. A slim majority of Black Protestant respondents, 51%, said they believed the Bible should override public opinion when it came to setting laws and 65% said they believed that America should be a Christian nation.

TYT National Correspondent Matthew Sheffield reports about politics, media, and technology. Follow him on Twitter: @mattsheffield.