The phrase
"white evangelicals" refers to a group of white people who identify themselves as followers of evangelical Christianity. They typically hold conservative beliefs and emphasize the importance of personal faith, Bible teachings, and spreading their religious beliefs.
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among white evangelicals who attend church weekly, 88 percent of whom said employers should be able to refuse services.
The study also found that
white evangelicals who attend church overwhelmingly say that abortion (89 %) and homosexual behavior (86 %) are morally wrong.
The issue of race remains contentious in our nation and in our neighborhoods, and
many white evangelicals remain confused as to how they should respond.
Among
white evangelical men, the support number is even higher — 81 percent — while among women in the demographic, the positive figure is at 71 percent.
There is a large and increasing gap in
white evangelical beliefs on same - sex marriage, and that gap is largely drawn along generational lines.
A more interesting part of this is found in the survey cited in the article: the first choice
of white evangelicals for avoiding this kind of event is teaching more morality and god.
PRRI's 2016 survey found that 43 percent of Americans identify as white and Christian, and only 17 percent identify as
white evangelical Protestant.
A plurality of self - identified
white evangelicals voted for Trump (40 %), while the majority split their votes between Ted Cruz (34 %), Marco Rubio (11 %), and John Kasich (10 %).
Seven in ten
white evangelicals said churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship contribute to solving social problems (70 %), down from 86 percent in 2008.
And while groups such
as white evangelical Protestants remain skeptical of environmental science, even they are beginning to accrue widespread support for action on climate change.
Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type of Christian for
white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in love with Mitt Romney the Mormon, of which most of these churches have preached against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type of doctrine.
«Religion is a proxy for trustworthiness of a candidate, especially
for white evangelical voters,» said Robert P. Jones, a pollster who focuses on religion and values questions.
On only one issue do
white evangelicals think Clinton would basically do just as good a job of addressing as Trump: dealing with race relations.
About a quarter of black Protestants (26 %) and 16 percent of
white evangelicals didn't sympathize with either side.
But
more white evangelical Republicans think Trump would do a poor / terrible job (18 %) than think the same about Rubio (11 %), Carson (7 %), or Cruz (5 %).
Catholics were the most critical of their own churches» messages on homosexuality,
while white evangelical Christians gave their churches the highest grades, the survey found.
According to NPR's McCammon, «The meeting is part of an effort to rally and reassure conservative voters,
especially white evangelicals who fueled Trump's run to the White House, ahead of this year's midterms.
Some have argued that the demographic is standing merely for the only Republican option in the political field, and yet, 69 percent of
white evangelicals surveyed said they would prefer Trump to another candidate.
An analysis of Pew's data suggests that only half of Francis's fans among
white evangelicals agree with him that global warming is occuring and is a serious problem, and only one - third agree that it is caused by humans.
Americans who identify as
white evangelicals remain a powerful voting bloc in the United States — representing 1 out of every 5 voters in recent presidential elections, according to The Pew Research Center.
Stetzer joined Morgan and Mark to discuss the limits of the evangelical umbrella,
how white evangelicals» voting affects evangelicals of color, and why Christians aren't listening to their leaders.
While Americans overall have warmed up to Muslims in recent years,
white evangelicals express more concerns about US Muslims than any other religious group.
According to the study, nearly half (47 percent) of Generation X and
millennial white evangelicals (those born after 1964) support the legalization of gay marriage.
Half of
white evangelicals also believe that there is a «great deal» or «fair amount» of support for extremism among Muslims living in the US.
Repeated studies have shown that there is a greater incidence of child molestation and incest among
southern white evangelical christians than in any other group that participated in the study.
Leading up to the election, LifeWay Research, which measures evangelicals by belief and includes non-whites, found that evangelicals of color sided with Hillary Clinton (62 %) nearly as strongly as
white evangelicals sided with Trump (65 %).
In Alabama, where self - described
white evangelicals made up 75 % of Republican voters Tuesday, Romney got 27 % of their votes, compared with 35 % for Santorum and 32 % for Gingrich, according to exit polls.
In part two of a series on racial issues and Ferguson, Missouri, Pastor Leonce Crump shares his thoughts on systemic injustice and asks
when white Evangelicals will address this issue.
«I'm put off
by white evangelicals who voted for a race - baiting, bigoted, body - shaming bully with questionable ethics and murky morals.
Support for Trump among
white evangelicals tends to exacerbate the trends among Americans overall, with regular churchgoers, men, and older demographics more likely to skew Republican.
Among
white evangelical weekly church attenders planning to vote for Clinton: 25 % support her strongly 75 % support her not strongly [Pew Research Center # 8]