Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and
sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American
Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).
«The issue is that basically unclaimed
bodies are being released without any sort of consideration of the person's possible
religious or personal beliefs on whether or not they want to be used for such practices,» said Queens Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz, who
sponsored the legislation with state Sen. Simcha Felder (D - Brooklyn).