Poll: Churchgoers more rigid

Boston Globe/Reuters ^ | 1/22/05 | Michael Conlon

[anniegetyourgun]

CHICAGO -- In the past four years churchgoing Americans have grown increasingly intolerant of politicians making compromises on such issues as abortion and gay rights, according to a survey released yesterday.

At the same time, those polled said they were growing bolder about pushing their beliefs on others, even risking offending people.

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh, the field day the headline writers must have had with this one. I'm sure they couldn't wait to come up with just the right words to stir up hatred and suspicion against people of faith. They choose "rigid"....playing into the Churchlady stereotype. Yeah, that's the ticket......

All the sudden the MSM has noticed that some churchgoers have closely held beliefs. And, lo and behold, they are daring to speak of them. Why, this never happens with non-churchgoers or the likes of Michael Newdow.....they would never be accused of "pushing their beliefs on others."

[Cornpone]

Good.

[Emmett McCarthy]

Churchgoers More Rigid? This got me confused with the other thread about Viagra being good for your heart!

[Texas_Jarhead]

Rooters headline for this article from yesterday, "Survey Finds Church-Going Americans Less Tolerant"

[Viking2002]

Yeah, the freaks at Reuters were probably cackling their humanist asses off when using descriptives like 'anal', 'pious', 'holier-than-thou', 'intolerant', 'fascist', and all the other sniveling bilge they spout before they settled on 'rigid'. Screw 'em.

[freedom4me]

Rigid? It's called having convictions.

[stopem]

"Why, this never happens with non-churchgoers or the likes of Michael Newdow.....they would never be accused of "pushing their beliefs on others."

No of course not, they call pushing their very degenerate beleifs on others "freedom".

[xm177e2]

Poll: Blacks more Rigid
Poll: Feminists more Rigid
Poll: Journalists more Rigid
Poll: Atheists more Rigid

Headlines you will never see in a liberal paper...

[AZ_Cowboy]

Heard that, ma'am.

The fact that the MSM thinks that this is some sort of new phenomenon is fascinating to me. I haven't changed, and none of "the folks" out here in the heartland have, either, as I see it. They just recently noticed that we exist, apparently.

[inquest]

If instead the poll had found that they tended to favor gun control, then the headline would have found churchgoers getting more "socially conscious".

[nmh]

It depends on where you go.

At humanistic teaching churches, they'll go along with everything. Bible based ... that's another story. We're getting sick and tired of having a horrendous agenda shoved down our throats and like the left, we are letting them know what WE think of the left and standing up for our rights for a change.

[anniegetyourgun]

Aha....so this particular headline can be laid at the feet of the Boston Globe. That figures. I'm just not sure why Reuters didn't just take the plunge and say that "Church-Going Americans are Intolerant"

[SandRat]

More likely that they understand that those are the 10 Commandments not the 10 Suggestions.

[anniegetyourgun]

Ain't that the truth....

[stopem]

"They just recently noticed that we exist, apparently.

Thank God for President Bush who helped to make them see we exist and are now the moral MAJORITY!!

[Texas_Jarhead]

It's not like the title couldn't be, "Church goers becoming more devout" or something similar.

[Dutchgirl]

Strangely, I saw a program today on PBS (of all places) lauding people of faith. It was a documentary on the Jewish chidren in the Netherlands who survived the Holocaust after being taken in by Catholic and Protestant families...how they risked the lives of their own families to defend others in need...how they stood up to evil.

I think it was a Canadian production because according to the documentary, the fabulous Canadian military liberated Europe from the Nazi's

along with the allies

[Dutchgirl]

Related article. University officials more rigid.

[still_learning]

"At the same time, those polled said they were growing bolder about pushing their beliefs on others, even risking offending people."

They mean like objecting to having your daughter given birth control by the perverts that run our public school systems.

[seppel]

I'm a church goer, and I'd like to cick the butt of a lot of politicians in the West that keep telling me that because we are tolerant and becuase of human rights and democracy I must accept:

1. Gay Marriage
2. Feminism
3. Job Descrimination
4. Crime
5. Lower Income
6. Premarital Sex, Drugs, Non-respect
7. Less Security
8. Islamic invasion of my culture.
9. Governmental incompetence
10. Lower standards in education, industry, government


I don't think so and I hope more of us are going to start kicking butt.