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.
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
But Utah is strong in Romney’s camp?
Worst thing that could happen? If Mormons all became high church protestants.
Hey guys, if you’re going to do it, please wait until after the next election.
So Mitt Romney really isn’t Mormon?
That may be the only thing he hasn't flip flopped on......yet.
In a word....BULL!
Huh?
I've seen studies that show a plurality of blacks as being "conservative." Self-identification means NOTHING politically.
The 59% of Mormons who identify as conservative is the largest such percentage of any major religious group included in this analysis. The next-most-conservative group are Protestants (including non-Catholic Christians), with 46% identifying as conservative. (This review does not include analysis of specific denominations into which Protestants can be subdivided, of which there are hundreds.) Thirty-nine percent of Catholics are conservative. Less than a quarter of Jews, Muslims, those who identify with other religions, and those with no religious identity identify as conservatives.
This poll really has nothing to do with Mitt Romney, or Glenn Beck, or Harry Reid, all of whom are Mormons. I just thought it is interesting how religion and political philosophy correlate.
The Jewish community is almost as liberal as the agnostics, which is a source of frustration for me.
But aren’t they slipping away from that..... now that they have gone gay?
This shows what kind of confusion exists around the definition of “conservative.” Utah, as a state, has not met a tax or law that it doesn’t like. Everything is taxed, and just about everything else is illegal or highly regulated. And we won’t even discuss the promotion of illegal immigration into the state by “the powers that be...”
All Mormons make up only about 2% of the US Population. Active Mormons make up only about 1%. The effect of Mormonism on a Presidential election is nil.
Do not pander to this special interest group. Their interest is in getting their own into positions of power.
Yeah. They seemed to have “skipped over” the white evangelical protestants in that “Most Conservative” categorization.
Maybe they were just reaching a conclusion, and lamely trying to find a statistical justification for it.
Traditional Catholics would easily eclipse the Mormons but are, alas, viewed as a fringe, not a major, group.
As individuals, I would think so. I believe a lot of people judge the whole based on a few politicians. I sure would hate for whatever demographic I happen do be in to be judged based on the politicians who also claim said label. Politicians for the most part, aren’t exactly the paragon of society. Rarely do we have a Statesman pop up any more.
Maybe they were just reaching a conclusion, and lamely trying to find a statistical justification for it.
True.
If they'd separated out evangelicals from "mainstream" Protestants they may have got different results.
But "white" isn't a religious category, so there's a problem there.
how many are in the military
I thought that all non Catholic Christians come under Protestant, which non Catholic Christians are not Protestants? The least Gallup could have done would be to separate the largest Protestant church (Southern Baptist), if they are going to make a big deal about Mormons.
Seeing Catholic compared to everything Protestant is vague enough, but to do that when you are going to include a group as small as Mormon makes the report useless.
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