Evangelical Protestants are not as different as we might expect: 65% have cohabited, essentially the same as Black Protestants (66%) and Catholics (63%).
Prior to conversion of after?
Posted on 04/25/2024 6:56:46 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Most of us are used to seeing well-known Evangelicals who live together outside of marriage celebrated in the news media—without any suggestion of a contradiction between their claims to be Bible-believing Christians and their choice to cohabit. Recent examples include top-rated Kansas City Chiefs Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and A-list Hollywood actor Chris Pratt.
Pratt and Mahomes are not anomalies; living together in sexual union outside of marriage is now accepted by most Evangelicals. Among those under 45, most have practiced cohabitation, plan to live together in the future, or are open to the possibility.
A Pew Research Center study in 2019 documented the acceptance of cohabitation among most Evangelicals…In fact, by 2012, the General Social Survey (GSS) revealed that only 41% of evangelicals ages 18 to 29 disagreed with the claim that cohabitation was morally acceptable even if the couple had no express intention to marry.
Among the currently cohabiting, only 55% of cohabiting Evangelicals were certain they would marry their partners—less than Mainline Protestants (59%), but more than the other religious groups. Of these Evangelicals, 13% were living with partners they had no clear intention of marrying; about the same as for Catholics (12%).
(Excerpt) Read more at ifstudies.org ...
Mahomes and Pratt live together?
What man is masochistic enough to marry?
Men won’t marry, so women have chosen to live with them.
The Institute for Family Studies wouldn’t know an Evangelical if one kicked them in the A$$.
The rise in cohabitation over the past few decades has been sharp across the developed world, including the United States. Despite the teaching of their faith, Evangelicals have not proven to be much of an exception. If Evangelical leaders wish to turn this ship around, they will need to explore fresh approaches to addressing this issue.
Do the Evangelical leaders wish?
Unless the penalties for marriage are removed, you can’t expect men to choose marriage.
Evangelical Protestants are not as different as we might expect: 65% have cohabited, essentially the same as Black Protestants (66%) and Catholics (63%).
Prior to conversion of after?
Overton Window meets Slippery Slope.
Sure written that way!
after all, the classic saying is “A man is not Complete until He’s married and then he’s finished”. I’m personally Finished but Wifey made the transaction compete...oops, I meant complete.
I predicted after gay marriage was accepted. Pretty soon, non-monogamy will be accepted too.
My daughter is getting married in the fall. As an evangelical Christian she and her fiancé are not cohabitating. They live a fair distance from each other and have arrangements with friends on each others town where one can stay.
It’s what you do.
But if you don't do that, you're looking for a way out if something goes wrong.
The NSFG asks respondents who are not currently cohabiting or married if they think they are likely to cohabit in the future. Because I wanted to focus on young people’s views, I narrowed my focus to only those respondents who were 15 to 22 years of age who had never been married or cohabited. Evangelical Protestants are clearly the least likely to say it is likely they will cohabit someday and are the most likely to have ruled cohabiting out. Still, only about one in four gave the “Bible answer” of “definitely not,” and close to half are planning on or leaning toward it.
Cohabitating same as divorce and remarrying same as screwing before marriage.
Men are dumb, but women are superiorly stupid!; hence, feminism praising hookers, strippers, men participating in womens dports, and the ultimate, cohabitating.
Crapping all over themselves and loving the misery of it.
Pretty common
Practically speaking woman should insist on date and ring first
Morally ?
Well we could argue that forever
My prediction was that the end of real marriage and acceptance of homosexuals and lesbians being “married” was the the beginning of the arrival of “consenting adults” choosing whatever they want and calling it marriage, which means not only polygamy but whatever else they come up with.
Jonty30, needs to run for Congress. He hits the nail on the head. Gov’t subsidies abound for women who prefer NOT to marry, you get more welfare benefits by NOT being married. THIS is point, spot on. My own 2 grand daughters are prime examples. They would loose all freebies if they had a marriage license.
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