13 intriguing religion and politics findings for 2013


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2013 has been an exciting year for research on politics and religion, with key new data emerging on hot-button issues like same-sex marriage, immigration reform and raising the minimum wage, and on important groups such as the Tea Party, Hispanics, and Catholics. Here are the Public Religion Research Institute’s top 13 findings from 2013, sorted in ascending order:

12: Percentage of Hispanics who say the phrase “cares about people like you” better describes the Republican Party

43 percent of Hispanics say this phrase better describes the Democratic Party; 13 percent say it describes both parties equally; and 29 percent report it describes neither party.

19: Percentage of Americans who are “religious progressives”

38 percent of Americans are religious moderates, while 28 percent are religious conservatives and 15 percent are nonreligious.

27: Percentage of Americans who believe God plays a role in outcomes of sporting events

42: Percentage of Americans who say that capitalism is NOT working well

42: Percentage of Tea Party members who favor raising the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10 per hour

More than 7-in-10 Americans overall favor increasing the minimum wage, including majorities of Democrats, independents and Republicans.

51: Percentage of Americans who believe that marijuana should be legal

A majority (60 percent) of Americans also say that legalizing the drug is not a sign of moral decline in the nation.

52: Percentage of Americans who favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally

53: Percentage of Hispanics who are currently Catholic

Catholic affiliation is sharply declining among Hispanics as a result of more Hispanics becoming Protestant (25 percent currently) and religiously unaffiliated (12 percent currently).

63: Percentage of Americans who favor allowing immigrants currently living in the United States illegally to become citizens provided they meet certain requirements

Majority support that crosses party lines has been stable through the year.

70: Percentage of Americans who say the income gap between rich and poor has grown during the past decade

73: Percentage of Tea Party members who are NOT libertarian

73: Percentage of Americans who support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a federal measure to protect gay and lesbian people against job discrimination

Support crosses partisan and religious lines, with majorities of both Republicans and Democrats, as well as all major religious groups, in favor of the workplace protections.

82: Percentage of Americans who report being very or extremely proud to be an American

Head on over to PRRI’s research page for more fascinating findings on the intersection of politics and religion during 2013.

by | December 9, 2013

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  • Scott_inVA

    This is not a discussion among Christians (those who are actually born again and follow the teachings of Jesus the Christ).
    We know that Jesus was Semitic as a man, which is a mixture of Mesopotamian races, as seen in the genealogy of Mary.
    We also know that Jesus has no race as God, who is a spirit, and must be worshiped in spirit and in truth.

    Anyone who is racist has no place in the family of Christ. Look what happened to Miriam when she criticized Moses’ choice of an Ethiopian wife?
    Then look at the New Testament, in which Paul proclaims in the Spirit, “In Christ there is neither male nor female, Jew or gentile, slave nor free.”
    As in most cases of prejudice and bigotry, people twist the Scriptures to suit their own ends.

    This is what Suzie does every week when she espouses Socialism for her boss, George Soros.

    • Justin Smith

      Even Jesus himself was prejudice. If I remember my Bible he had to be called out by a Samaritan women for it. He called her a “Dog” if I’m not mistaken because of her ethnicity.

  • Sons of Zadok

    The only way Jesus could have had a wife, is she would have had to be supernaturally conceived like Jesus was, or she would have had to come from one of his ribs like Eve came from Adams. The reason is. Jesus was made from perfect seed, and lived a sinless life,not from the imperfect seed of Adam, if he took a wife from the imperfect seed of Adam, and became one flesh with her, he would have been defiled, and his sacrifice on the cross would have been rejected by God.

  • ravy sok

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    Berita yang diringkas agen bola City Holiday, Gol-gol kemenangan seluruhnya dicetak oleh bintang utama mereka, Miroslav Klose. Girang dengan kemenangan tim serta penampilan sang striker, pelatih Baincoceleste, Vladimir Petkovic, langsung melemparkan sanjungannya.
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    “Soal Klose, dia memiliki sprit yang tinggi dalam bermain. Sebuah spirit yang bisa menular pada seluruh punggawa tim ini. Bersamanya, semua terasa lebih mudah,” pungkasnya.
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  • Scott Carroll

    The historical figure of Jesus was a Jew. Jews are not a race, they are a religion and an ethnicity. Racially Jews are considered Caucasian. I’m certain he had Semitic features but yes, the historical figure of Jesus was white. I’m not a Christian so I don’t have a horse in this race but I believe in historical accuracy over morphing the past to fit whatever cultural and political winds may be blowing at the moment.

    “God-with-us is God with the poor, the marginalized, the suffering. Those folks come in all races and ages, but one thing they have in common is that our dominant culture despises and rejects them.”

    Really? Aren’t Democrats supposed to be the party of the poor and needy? Do not Democrats control the Presidency, the Senate, the city councils and mayoral offices of every major metropolitan city? Are you saying that the Democrat Party despises the poor? Also we, collectively as a nation, have spent almost $10 trillion since 1964 fighting the War On Poverty. Is this the action of a culture that does not care for its poor?

  • Chris Ames

    I just want to point out that Santa was based largely on Odin. And as far as Jesus not having a wife, if he led a normal life for most of it, he would’ve been married by the time he was 20.