Posted on 01/11/2010 4:41:06 PM PST by MarkAccord
PRINCETON, NJ -- Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, are the most conservative major religious group in the country, with 59% identifying as conservative, 31% as moderate, and 8% as liberal.
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Anglicans and Orthodox.
I wasn't thinking of race, instead they could have done Catholics (biggest church), Southern Baptist (second biggest church), the rest of the Protestants, and then Mormon.
That would have given us more perspective and context for where these groups are.
“But “white” isn’t a religious category, so there’s a problem there.”
Well,yes and no. They did seem to break their groups out on a black and white basis, so the pollsters must have thought race was an important delineation as well. Note also that they show no “breakout” for the black protestants, yet the white protestants seem to have subcategories as to their attendance at church. Curious.
In any event, this seems to be more of a racial polling, than a religious one. The black vs. white political affiliation couldn’t be more bipolar. Might political preference be based more on race than religion. That’s troubling to me. Maybe they should have stuck to differences in religion period.
By your question, I assume you already know that Mormons and Jews are not big on the American military.
If ldsers are so conservative why do they march nearly in lock step for Romney?
Their church policy on abortion allows for abortion after consulting with their local bishop. For me that is a litmus test. I consider them only marginally pro-life.
Er, what was I saying earlier about woodwork and crawling???
Mitt Romney's mormonism is Harry Reid's mormonism
This is a map that is showing Utah strong Romney:
http://republicanrankings.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-rankings-palins-major-srlc-speech.html
These can be confusion with these numbers. If you divided Catholics between white and Hispanic, you would find white Catholics much more conservative than Catholics as a whole. Same thing with Baptists, white vs. black Baptists.
Should Gallup have divided the religious groups into white and minority members? That is debatable.
My father and stepfather both served in the military and are Jewish. My father died of a service related injury.
You might be confusing me with someone else, I didn’t suggest a racial breakdown. This is what I posted.
“I wasn’t thinking of race, instead they could have done Catholics (biggest church), Southern Baptist (second biggest church), the rest of the Protestants, and then Mormon.
That would have given us more perspective and context for where these groups are.”
What years did they serve, and were they drafted?
Currently there are only about 4500 Jews in the entire American military, about 1/6th of what it should be.
I agree completely. The left and their tools are trying multiple ways to split the conservatives into warring camps, whether by religion, social issues, fiscal policy, national defense, you name it. It's all commie propaganda.
“By your question, I assume you already know that Mormons and Jews are not big on the American military.”
My uncle, a lifelong Mormon, retired with 27 yrs. service in the US Army. His son-in-law, likewise a lifelong Mormon, retired from the Army as well.
My Dad, a Mormon at the time, won a Purple Heart during his Marine Corp service. (later left the church)
Those 3 people were volunteers, not conscripts.
Sweeping generalizations like yours, aim to discredit entire groups.
How do you advance conservatism, by criticizing conservative groups?
That isn't a sweeping generalization, it is just a fact. We aren't supposed to know enlistment data here on a conservative, pro military, political site?
They served honorably in Army and Navy, and I do not know if they were drafted. Sorry
The real point is that knowing someone that was in the service, does not change the facts, in my family all the men enlisted, Father, Stepfather, both brothers, my only stepbrother, me, my son, and we all enlisted during war times except my father (joined 1939), and my son (1990s), but that doesn’t mean anything statistically.
My father was drafted and my step father enlisted. I never enlisted during the Vietnam War because I was opposed to it, and I was never drafted.
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