Sentences with phrase «white mainline»

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

The high point was the 2004 election, when 34 percent of churchgoing white evangelicals, 31 percent of Catholics, and 27 percent of white mainline Protestants said their churches provided election information.

At 67 percent in favor, white evangelical Protestants are more likely than any other group to support the death penalty, followed closely by white mainline Protestants (64 percent).

No other religious group, including white mainline Protestants, black Protestants and white Catholics, agreed with completely overturning the ruling.

Much of that surge was fueled by white evangelical and other white mainline Protestant religious groups who are more likely to see immigrants as a threat to American values than other groups, according to a 2015 PRRI study.

A majority of every religious group sampled - white evangelicals (73 %), black Protestants (58 %) and Catholics (58 %) and a plurality of white mainline Protestants (36 %)- responded that abortion was morally wrong.

Gov. Mitt Romney's biggest bloc of religious voters are white evangelical Protestants, at 37 percent, followed by white mainline Protestants and white Catholics, each at 19 percent.

Majorities of white evangelical Protestants (55 percent), white mainline Protestants (60 percent), Catholics (62 percent), minority Protestants (69 percent), and the religiously unaffiliated (64 percent) also favor a path to citizenship for immigrants currently living in the United States illegally.

In the meantime, white mainline Protestants are the only religious group in which the majority don't see any conflict between science and religion (only 42 percent do).

«By contrast, nearly nine in 10 Jews say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, as do about seven in 10 Americans with no religious affiliation and 63 % of white mainline Protestants,» the survey reported.

White evangelicals are the most likely to view the change negatively (77 percent), but the majority of white mainline Protestants (66 percent), black Protestants (65 percent), and Catholics (61 percent) feel likewise.

Furthermore, White Mainline Protestants and Black Protestants were considerably less likely than other denominations to hear about either religious liberty, abortion, or homosexuality.

White mainline Protestants make up only 15 % of the nation's population, the survey revealed.

Additionally, more than half of all Jewish Americans (67 %), Mormons (63 %), white Catholics (62 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (56 %) supported the inclusive immigration policy.

Faith in Public Life: People of Faith Support Minimum Wage Raise Majorities of all religious groups favor increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 10.00 an hour, including black Protestants (87 %), Catholics (73 %), Americans who are religiously unaffiliated (68 %), white mainline Protestants (61 %) and white evangelical Protestants (61 %).

The ancient cores of the Democratic and Republican parties» white Catholics and white mainline Protestants» have become swing constituencies, divided between modernists and traditionalists.

More than half of white evangelicals (54 %) and white mainline Protestants (53 %) would support a law barring Syrian refugees from entering the United States, according to a survey conducted in June by the Public Religion Research Institute.

According to a PRRI poll conducted last year, 74 percent of white evangelicals, 66 percent of white mainline Protestants, and 63 percent of white Catholics said they saw Islamic and American values in conflict.

White mainline Protestants and white Catholics are more evenly split on this question, although each group leans toward saying that it is better for children to have a parent at home.