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Religious Affiliation of 106th Congress
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Posted on 06/11/2003 2:26:42 PM PDT by Onelifetogive

Religious Affiliations

. House Senate Total
. D R Total D R Total Total
Congress
Catholic 76 50 126 14 11 25 151
Baptist 34 28 62 1 7 8 70
Methodist 16 34 50 5 7 12 62
Presbyterian 15 26 41 1 6 7 48
Episcopalian 9 21 30 4 9 13 43
Jewish 21 1 23 10 1 11 34
Lutheran 9 8 17 3 2 5 22
Latter-day Saints (Mormon) 2 10 12 1 4 5 17
United Church of Christ
and Congregationalist
1 2 3 4 2 6 9
Eastern Orthodox Christian 1 2 3 1 2 3 6
Christian Scientist 0 5 5 0 0 0 5
Pentecostal 0 2 2 0 1 1 3
Seventh-Day Adventist 1 2 3 0 0 0 3
Unitarian 1 1 2 1 0 1 3
Christian Church 3 0 3 0 0 0 3
African Methodist Episcopal 2 0 2 0 0 0 2
Christian Reformed Church 0 2 2 0 0 0 2
Disciples of Christ 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
Protestant - unspecified 12 28 40 0 2 2 42
Unspecified 7 0 7 0 1 1 8

[Source: "Federal Government Officials, 1999", compiled by the MCLS Reference Center. URL: http://www.mcls.org/homepages/ref/govfed.htm]



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1 posted on 06/11/2003 2:26:42 PM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: Onelifetogive
What does this tell us?

Catholics and Jews are mostly Democrats? Protestants are mostly Republican?

Any other interesting facts?

2 posted on 06/11/2003 2:29:13 PM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: Onelifetogive
Tells us that there are few Muslims, that even most agnostics claim Christian religious affiliation.
3 posted on 06/11/2003 2:38:17 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: Onelifetogive
Tells us that there are few Muslims, that even most agnostics claim Christian religious affiliation.
4 posted on 06/11/2003 2:38:26 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: Onelifetogive
No Democratic Pentecostals!

Being "filled with the Spirit" and murdering babies are rather incompatible!

5 posted on 06/11/2003 2:45:39 PM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: Onelifetogive
You think with all of those Catholics we would over throw Roe v. Wade!
6 posted on 06/11/2003 2:49:33 PM PDT by restornu (When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.)
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To: Onelifetogive
493 out of 535 members of Congress are Christians and we get the kind of things they pass. Good thing they aren't pagans!
7 posted on 06/11/2003 2:53:13 PM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: Onelifetogive
Did you see

"The Deck of Hillary"


Exclusively from NewsMax.com

8 posted on 06/11/2003 2:53:35 PM PDT by restornu (When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.)
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To: Onelifetogive
SITREP
9 posted on 06/11/2003 3:09:11 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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