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Mormons Most Conservative Major Religious Group
Gallup Poll ^

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.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatives; ldschurch; mormon; mormons; romney; utah
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To: ansel12

Anglicans and Orthodox.


21 posted on 01/11/2010 5:14:24 PM PST by mnehring
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To: Habibi
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.

I wasn't thinking of race, instead they could have done Catholics (biggest church), Southern Baptist (second biggest church), the rest of the Protestants, and then Mormon.

That would have given us more perspective and context for where these groups are.

22 posted on 01/11/2010 5:17:05 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: x

“But “white” isn’t a religious category, so there’s a problem there.”

Well,yes and no. They did seem to break their groups out on a black and white basis, so the pollsters must have thought race was an important delineation as well. Note also that they show no “breakout” for the black protestants, yet the white protestants seem to have subcategories as to their attendance at church. Curious.

In any event, this seems to be more of a racial polling, than a religious one. The black vs. white political affiliation couldn’t be more bipolar. Might political preference be based more on race than religion. That’s troubling to me. Maybe they should have stuck to differences in religion period.


23 posted on 01/11/2010 5:21:37 PM PST by Habibi ("It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." - William of Occam)
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To: MarkAccord
If Mormons are conservative why do they elect RINOs? Huh?
24 posted on 01/11/2010 5:22:02 PM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid!)
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To: dalebert
how many are in the military

By your question, I assume you already know that Mormons and Jews are not big on the American military.

25 posted on 01/11/2010 5:23:30 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: MarkAccord

If ldsers are so conservative why do they march nearly in lock step for Romney?


26 posted on 01/11/2010 5:25:47 PM PST by svcw (The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. GW)
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To: MarkAccord

Their church policy on abortion allows for abortion after consulting with their local bishop. For me that is a litmus test. I consider them only marginally pro-life.


27 posted on 01/11/2010 5:27:09 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: colorcountry
Their interest is in getting their own into positions of power

Er, what was I saying earlier about woodwork and crawling???

Mitt Romney's mormonism is Harry Reid's mormonism

28 posted on 01/11/2010 5:31:28 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Obamacare: Old folks don't deserve healthcare. They use up too many carbon credits just breathing.)
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To: pointsal

This is a map that is showing Utah strong Romney:

http://republicanrankings.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-rankings-palins-major-srlc-speech.html


29 posted on 01/11/2010 5:59:51 PM PST by Sybeck1 (Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm)
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To: ansel12

These can be confusion with these numbers. If you divided Catholics between white and Hispanic, you would find white Catholics much more conservative than Catholics as a whole. Same thing with Baptists, white vs. black Baptists.

Should Gallup have divided the religious groups into white and minority members? That is debatable.


30 posted on 01/11/2010 5:59:55 PM PST by MarkAccord
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To: ansel12

My father and stepfather both served in the military and are Jewish. My father died of a service related injury.


31 posted on 01/11/2010 6:00:01 PM PST by MarkAccord
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To: MarkAccord

You might be confusing me with someone else, I didn’t suggest a racial breakdown. This is what I posted.

“I wasn’t thinking of race, instead they could have done Catholics (biggest church), Southern Baptist (second biggest church), the rest of the Protestants, and then Mormon.

That would have given us more perspective and context for where these groups are.”


32 posted on 01/11/2010 6:05:35 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: MarkAccord

What years did they serve, and were they drafted?

Currently there are only about 4500 Jews in the entire American military, about 1/6th of what it should be.


33 posted on 01/11/2010 6:08:03 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: Clemenza
Self-identification means NOTHING politically.

I agree completely. The left and their tools are trying multiple ways to split the conservatives into warring camps, whether by religion, social issues, fiscal policy, national defense, you name it. It's all commie propaganda.

34 posted on 01/11/2010 6:15:14 PM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: ansel12

“By your question, I assume you already know that Mormons and Jews are not big on the American military.”

My uncle, a lifelong Mormon, retired with 27 yrs. service in the US Army. His son-in-law, likewise a lifelong Mormon, retired from the Army as well.

My Dad, a Mormon at the time, won a Purple Heart during his Marine Corp service. (later left the church)

Those 3 people were volunteers, not conscripts.

Sweeping generalizations like yours, aim to discredit entire groups.

How do you advance conservatism, by criticizing conservative groups?


35 posted on 01/11/2010 6:35:41 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: truth_seeker
Sweeping generalizations like yours, aim to discredit entire groups.

That isn't a sweeping generalization, it is just a fact. We aren't supposed to know enlistment data here on a conservative, pro military, political site?

36 posted on 01/11/2010 6:45:04 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: ansel12

They served honorably in Army and Navy, and I do not know if they were drafted. Sorry


37 posted on 01/11/2010 6:55:28 PM PST by MarkAccord
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To: MarkAccord

The real point is that knowing someone that was in the service, does not change the facts, in my family all the men enlisted, Father, Stepfather, both brothers, my only stepbrother, me, my son, and we all enlisted during war times except my father (joined 1939), and my son (1990s), but that doesn’t mean anything statistically.


38 posted on 01/11/2010 7:03:48 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: MarkAccord


39 posted on 01/11/2010 8:07:42 PM PST by Grig
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To: ansel12

My father was drafted and my step father enlisted. I never enlisted during the Vietnam War because I was opposed to it, and I was never drafted.


40 posted on 01/11/2010 8:30:26 PM PST by MarkAccord
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