About 84 percent of Italians oppose a judicial ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that bans crucifixes from Italian classrooms, as revealed by a poll on Sunday.

Reuters reports that, "the poll in the Corriere della Sera newspaper showed 84 percent of Italians want the crucifixes to stay, 14 percent siad they should be taken down and two percent had no opinion."

Many of those in support of classroom crucifixes are not practicing Catholics. Approximately 68 percent of those who oppose the European Court's ruling had also confessed that they never attended Mass.

The government of Italy had announced it would appeal the ruling made last Thursday in Strasbourgh, and high government officials from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on down insist the crucifixes would stay there as part of Italy's Christian culture.

According to Reuters, "the ruling - which said crucifixes could disturb children who were not Christians - prompted Vatican anger an an uproar in Italy, where such icons are embedded in the national psyche."

Soile Lautsi, an Italian national, brought the case to the World Court complaining that the children were compelled to attend a public school in northern Italy that had crucifixes in every room.

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