Religious Affiliations of Members of Congress[1]
Religion Percent
Protestant 54.7%
Catholic 30.1%
Jewish 8.4%
Mormon 2.6%
Orthodox 1.3%
Unknown 0.9%
Other Christian 0.6%
Other Faiths 0.6%
Muslim 0.4%
Buddhist 0.4%
54.7% of seats are currently held by members of Protestant denominations.
45 Jews currently serve in Congress. Eleven representatives and five senators are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Senator Olympia Snowe, as well as Representatives John Sarbanes, Zack Space, Gus Bilirakis, Dina Titus, Niki Tsongas and Melissa Bean are Orthodox Christians.
In 2007, Keith Ellison of Minnesota became the first practicing Muslim to become a member of the United States Congress. He was joined by André Carson of Indiana following a special election on March 11, 2008. Both are converts to Islam.
Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Representatives Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) and Pete Stark (D-CA) are the only Unitarian Universalists currently serving in Congress. In a response to a March 2007 survey from the Secular Coalition for America, Rep. Stark became the only open atheist in the history of Congress.[2] One member of the current Congress is a Quaker, Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ).”
Wikipedia Source
OBAMA BAPTISED CHRISTIAN
” Obama grew up living all across the world with plenty of spiritual influences, but without any particular religion. He is now a Christian, having been baptized in the early 1990s at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.”
http://www.newsweek.com/2008/07/11/finding-his-faith.html
Whoopsie.
Looks Like Obama is a OSAS type of Protestant”
“Still, Obama is unapologetic in saying he has a “personal relationship with Jesus Christ.” As a sign of that relationship, he says, he walked down the aisle of Chicago’s Trinity United Church of Christ in response to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s altar call one Sunday morning about 16 years ago...”
http://www.suntimes.com/news/falsani/726619,obamafalsani040504.article
obama never said he was Protestant. He said *Christian*.
So, it seems that you equate calling oneself Christian with being Protestant. Does that mean that you don’t consider Catholics Christian?
Catholic nuns who support abortion?
http://www.lifenews.com/2010/10/11/state-5530/
Pro-Abortion Nun at Catholic University of Detroit Mercy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2492989/posts
And there’s all these Catholic leftist, socialist promoting democrats in Congress who are still, (were in one case) members in good standing in the Catholic church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Senators
Representatives who are (were) Catholic...
Edward Kennedy Democratic Roman Catholic
John F. Kerry Democratic Roman Catholic
Kirsten Gillibrand Democratic Roman Catholic
Jack Reed Democratic Roman Catholic
Patrick Leahy Democratic Roman Catholic
Patty Murray Democratic Roman Catholic
MariaMaria Cantwell Democratic Roman Catholic
Nancy Pelosi Democratic Roman Catholic
Members in good standing in the RCC.