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Are Evangelicals Bad for Marriage?
National Review ^ | 07/25/2014 | Maggie Gallagher

Posted on 07/25/2014 4:31:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

An April 2014 Urban Institute study predicts that if current marriage rates do not rebound, just 69 percent of Millennial women (and 65 percent of men) will marry by the age of 40. By contrast, in 1990, 91 percent of U.S.-born women had married by the age of 40.

Almost none of this retreat from marriage will be felt among college-educated white Americans. The majority of college-educated Millennials will marry and have their children in marriages that last until the death of one partner.

Meanwhile, the average American lives in a world where sex is plentiful but stable families are not, leading many a Millennial to conclude that there is little point in marriage at all. You can’t fail at what you don’t attempt.

Into this explosive disruption of the time-tested path to opportunity for America’s next generation comes a new marriage debate: Are evangelicals bad for marriage?

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: cathvsprot; divorce; evangelicals; marriage
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To: stars & stripes forever

+ 1 million

We’re shooting ourselves in the foot by playing that game. There are plenty of Catholics who are Saved by the Holy Blood of Jesus, same with “Evangelicals”.

Apostasy runs very deep in BOTH camps.


21 posted on 07/25/2014 6:03:24 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Bible Summary in a few verses: John 14:6, John 6:29, Romans 10:9-10)
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To: stars & stripes forever
Isn’t it time to drop this Catholic VS Evangelical feud?

Absolutely. For soon the night is coming when no man may work.

Pope Francis apparently gets this. Witness his recent meetings with James Robison and other prominent Evangelicals.

The vast majority of the time I notice my Parish Priest and an Evangelical preacher on television are delivering the same message.


22 posted on 07/25/2014 6:13:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Campion
Really? That's great, because the article's answer to the question, "Are Evangelicals bad for marriage?", amounts to, "No, it's a lot more complicated than that." ... As you would know, had you read more than the title.

btw...i did read the article.

23 posted on 07/25/2014 7:13:50 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: ealgeone

These numbers are false.


24 posted on 07/25/2014 7:16:12 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ealgeone

8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...


25 posted on 07/25/2014 7:17:26 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: stars & stripes forever

**Isn’t it time to drop this Catholic VS Evangelical feud?

Agreed.


26 posted on 07/25/2014 7:18:07 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I think it’s the volume of articles — not the articles themselves.


27 posted on 07/25/2014 7:19:19 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Mechanicos

From that link:

“”First-time marriages: probably 20 to 25 percent have ended in divorce on average,” Feldhahn revealed. “Now, okay, that’s still too high, but it’s a whole lot better than what people think it is.””


28 posted on 07/25/2014 7:21:21 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: knarf
Dad .. it's just not that important to us.

Yep. Neither is hard work, political awareness, community involvement or morality.

29 posted on 07/25/2014 7:42:35 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We’re in a society that’s more corrosive than anything since the debauchery of Rome. That’s what’s “Bad for Marriage”. Which group is worst and how some self-idenfied as “Whatever” votes is just BS to help that corrosive society divide and conquer the holdouts who try to live their faith instead of going along to get along.


30 posted on 07/25/2014 8:55:51 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Salvation; ealgeone



31 posted on 07/25/2014 9:01:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I and othe white Catholics worked really hard to push Bush over the line. I got in a fight of sorts with an old man in the Church parking lot over my Bush t-shirt. :)


32 posted on 07/25/2014 9:06:59 AM PDT by defconw (Both parties have clearly lost their minds!)
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To: strider44

**Many of these North East Liberals are just Catholic by affiliation and don’t attend Mass. Or if they do, they’re just the Christmas and Easter types.

A married couple that attends Mass regularly is way more likely to be pro life, pro children, and conservative, even in Massachusetts. I’ve seen it. I have lots of Irish friends named Sullivan and Murphy that have 4 kids and attend Mass regularly. My sons get frustrated some times when they can’t play with their friends because these kids are at CCD.

And believe it or not, there are many families like mine that have 3 or more kids but no religious affiliation at all and still vote conservative in all issues.**

Source for your assertions of lumping all Catholics into this one bucket, please.


33 posted on 07/25/2014 10:07:01 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: stars & stripes forever

The feud is doctrinal, wherefore it has persisted. Internet forums tend to be nasty and brutal. FR is heavy on the Catholic side (from what I can tell). I like hearing the issues aired out. One can learn to filter out the huffing and puffing.


34 posted on 07/25/2014 10:08:45 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: polymuser

They have the hard work down pat.


35 posted on 07/25/2014 10:11:03 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Salvation
8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...,

And I'd vote for Romney again over Obama any day of the week.

36 posted on 07/25/2014 10:31:09 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: Salvation
These numbers are false.

Which ones??

37 posted on 07/25/2014 10:33:13 AM PDT by ealgeone (obama, borderof)
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To: Salvation

I didn’t lump Catholics into one bucket. I said there are generally 2 types where I’m from. Easter and Christmas Catholics and more devout weekly Mass Catholics. My “source” is over 40 years of living in and around large Irish and Italian Catholic families. IMHO, the families that go to Mass more often are more conservative. Obviously, you are free to disagree.


38 posted on 07/25/2014 12:24:47 PM PDT by strider44
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To: Tax-chick; SeekAndFind

Article? There was an article connected to that headline?


39 posted on 07/25/2014 3:01:50 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Fides et Ratio.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I thought I read one, but it was early in the morning. Maybe I was dreaming.


40 posted on 07/25/2014 3:20:27 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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