Mormons: The Most Conservative Religious Group In America

The Atlantic ^ | Jul 24 2009 | Chris Good

[night reader]

Mormons: The Most Conservative Religious Group In America

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That's according to a new report from Pew, released today and based on data from the group's 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey.

More Mormons (60 percent) identify themselves as conservatives than any other religious group; they also lead every other group in GOP party identification (at 65 percent)--much higher than the general population in both categories.

[night reader]

Well, this may get me booted as I've come to feel that LDS are persona non grata on FR.

If so, OK. But this article seems to indicate that most of us are on the plan!

[ConservativeMind]

You’re fine posting this.

You don’t claim to have golden tablets.

[theFIRMbss]

>Well, this may get me booted as I've come to feel that LDS are persona non grata

Never noticed that.
Folks might get playful about
magic underwear . . .

[wendy1946]

The LDS church strikes me as a religious version of something which really is too big to die. It serves mainly as a support group for middle class people trying to raise children and also as a very necessary counterweight to the power of the fed govt. in areas in which 90% of the land is owned by BLAM. But you need to bag the sci-fi theology....

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Just one FReeper’s opinion:

I like, respect and admire Mormons. So much so, I am considering a move to Utah.

What turns me away from Mormons, is Mitt Romney’s flunkies attacking Sarah Palin.

If Mormons can take Mitt out behind the woodshed and break him of this bad habit, it would help both Mitt, and the LDS church - to win over those of us who actually do want to like them.

Seriously.

Someone please tell Mitt to call off his dogs.

For all of us.

[panaxanax]

ping and bump....thanks

[Salvation]

I don’t think so.

[aimhigh]

This article was already posted. But since the replies destroyed the myth, apparently this was posted again. Harry Reid is now the great Mormon political leader. So much for conservative unity within LDS. It would be nice if Mormons would quit using FreeRepublic just to promote their church.

[John Leland 1789]

Evidently whole denominations or known groups are rated. But there are thousands and thousands of autonomous Christian congregations around the country whose members are Constitutional conservatives.

[John Leland 1789]

Are Mormos the only ones who use FR to promote their church?

[PetroniusMaximus]

If I may paraphrase...

“For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of “conservatives”, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

[floridavoter2]

I’m not going to become one, but I like them too!

[Artemis Webb]

The thread is about the conservatism of Mormons as a GROUP. It’s not a thread about their religious beliefs. I can feel pretty safe in assuming that Mormons as a GROUP voted far more Republican in the last election than did Catholics.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Mormons: The Most Conservative Religious Group In America

Not around Chapel Hill they're not!

[Edit35]

Romney didn’t attack Palin. That’s another ruse perpetuated by those who blindly hate Romney.

Romney DID,however, go after McCain pretty strong ... and it turns out Mitt was correct in doing so.

[MrEdd]

Pew is of course, the in house polling organization of the Tribune companies.

Spinning it off and giving it a new name hasn’t changed the bias it was crafted to produce.

[scooby321]

Harry Reid ?

[Diogenesis]

Romney goes after women and children. Disgusting.

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

[Diogenesis]

Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best. Your hero.

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Are Mormos the only ones who use FR to promote their church?

The Catholics do that quite a bit, too.