Posted on 07/29/2009 7:44:24 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
SALT LAKE CITY -- This most likely won't surprise you. Most Mormons are Republican.The Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey says 65 percent of LDS Church members are either Republican or they lean that way, which is a higher percentage than any other religious group.
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The Pew study says only 50 percent of evangelicals consider themselves Republican or right-leaning, compared to 33 percent of Catholics, 41 percent of members of what are called "Mainline Churches" and 25 percent of "Other Christians."
According to the study, 22 percent of Mormons are Democrats or left-leaning, and 8 percent say they're independent. But some Democrats see 22 percent as a big jump from the ‘80s.
Read the rest of the article from KSL, here.
That's pretty interesting stuff. Still, I wonder how anyone that considers themselves religious, can be liberal. How can they affiliate themselves with an ideology that supports abortion. Is killing babies Christ-like? How can they affiliate themselves with an ideology that supports gay marriage? Tell me, where in the Bible does it talk about gay marriage being ok? It doesn't, but it does mention, multiple times, men marrying women, and women marrying men (Gen. 34:9, Ex. 21:10, Deut. 7:3, etc.). It does not talk about Adam and Steve. How can they affiliate themselves with a party that takes away personal freedoms, punishes hard work, and pushes dependence on Government and others?
I would hope that most religious people, that are not republican, are still conservative. I would hope that those people that consider themselves liberal, don't really understand what that implies, and that they are more conservative than they realize.
**Please keep this free from religious bashing. This isn't a discussion of Mormon ideology, it is a discussion of religious conservatism.** Thanks
Republican != Conservative
Maybe but Mitt apparently hasn’t heard.
It is too bad that the two Mormon faces in politics we have are liberals (Mitt Romney and Harry Reid). They don’t exactly reflect their faith.
There are more than two. What about Sen. Hatch, and Sen. Bennett? Or Cong. Chavetz? Rob Bishop? Chris Cannon? Mike Crapo, John Doolittle, etc., etc.?
Do you really think if you keep posting this crap poeple will believe it?
Not sure what the crap is you refer to, or what I am trying to convince people to believe... Sort of a random remark on your part.
Other than Hatch, who I forgot about, I meant those who where major faces. Those two are the ones who are always in the spotlight.
Huh???
When did ignoring the plain words of Old and New Testament Scripture in favor of a new upstart self appointed prophet’s words become conservative?
And don’t even get me started on what they have done with traditional marriage over time.
You would think Orin Hatch would be a pretty unusual name but there was an old timer named Orin Hatch who ran a farm near my hometown. I think he spelled his name “Orrin” though.
Here in IL-6, we have Peter Roskam.
He is a reliable Conservative.
I don’t know what the actual geneology is but Orin Hatch sounds like a really old english/new england puritan name.
ROFLMBO
Once in the News forum, once in the Religion forum...one would think that survey would have had enough exposure by now...of course, if one is trying to limit the comments to a set template, (see this instruction by the original poster, " **Please keep this free from religious bashing. This isn't a discussion of Mormon ideology, it is a discussion of religious conservatism.** Thanks)" it may need to be posted three or four MORE times.
Nice try.
BTW speaking of bashing, JR caught his share of flak Here, with some pretty nasty accusations against FR and JR.
I didn’t post that, or see it, and the article I posted, was from a different news source entirely.
Lots of old names around my hometown. Cyrus, Ty, Erasmus. My great grandmother was Zella.
No matter how many times this is posted, I DONT BELIEVE
the poll.
The existence of Romney and Reid indicates the poll is BS.
I dunno, Mormons vote conservatively, whereas cinos elect democrats in ever increasing numbers.
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