33 percent of voters are evangelical Christians?!?!?

[Sparkly]

Richard Land of the 16 million-member Southern Baptist Convention said that in 1960, 22 percent of voters were evangelical Christians. He said the number was now about 33 percent.

Where the heck did that stat come from?! (Sounds "faith-based" to me.)
But there's more:

Under federal law, churches risk losing their tax-exempt status if clergy endorse a particular political candidate from the pulpit. Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are pushing legislation to remove that limitation before Congress adjourns, possibly by attaching it to another measure.

Christian Coalition President Roberta Combs said she believed conservative Christian turnout this year would exceed that of 2000 because voters knew and admired Bush after four years in the White House.

Bush has often spoken about how his religious conversion allowed him to put his life in order and give up alcohol.

(Or so they believe.) I don't even understand what they consider "Christian" about greed, lies, pandering, phoniness, thievery, and killing.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=696&e=1&u=/nm/20040915/pl_nm/campaign_christians_dc

[aquart]

1. Nice number.

Mr. Land, how many of them are black?

[stray cat]

2. This evangelical christian is voting for christian values - Kerry/Edwards

nt

[classof56]

11. Hey, good to hear from you!

I'm about ready to give up on many of my fellow "evangelical Christians" and their insistence that Bush is a man of faith who wins their support because he "prays to Jesus every morning" and says the Bible is his favorite book. Nice to know there are those among us who see what Bush really is. As Jesus said to the Pharisees, "Wisdom is proved right by her actions".

Amen and BUSH MUST GO!!

[faithnotgreed]

14. christian for kerry right here! count me in all day every day

[NC_Nurse]

3. My, that IS scary

I don't see why they can't pay taxes if they want to jump into the ring. The whole thing really stinks, using religion to get the sheeple to vote a certain way...:puke:

[shockingelk]

7. You're scared Kerry will lose the bible belt?

Oh my! :)

[tanyev]

4. Actually it's 33.4%

That leaves the remaining 66.6% of us....

[Sensitivity]

5. Can "High-Road" Kerry Put forward a program that APPEALS to this group.

May as well, it he is unwilling to play Bush's dirty games.

[shockingelk]

6. It's only the S. Baptist type that support Jr

There's an interesting few pages in this month's Atlantic.

No pattern can be observed between frequency of church attendance and party identification, although the more a person attends worship services, the more likely that person is to vote.

Oh yeah, Mormons are staunchly Republican as well as white S baptists.

[arbusto_baboso]

8. There are cracks in the mormons repuke armor now, though....

Most of my in-laws are Utah mormons. They are staunch believers, and up until now, staunch Republicans as well. But some interesting things are happening.

Long story short: Utah will NOT go blue this election, but it will probably be CLOSER to going blue this time than at any time since Eisenhower. The times they are a'changin'!

[shockingelk]

20. Let's hope the times are a changing

... and a big part of that change will involve a presidential transition team in a few months!

[Nightjock]

9. Don't be too worried

Here is one example why...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=815388&mesg_id=815388

[WiseMen]

10. Kerry must make some proposal that appeals to "PRO-LIFE" voters.

[Cheswick2.0]

17. no way

Kerry makes overatures to pro-lifers and he will loose a large amount of the woman's vote.

[faithfulcitizen]

12. all Christians are "evangelical"...

I've never understood the difference. MSNBC (i think) just said Bush has a very specific faith and was "evangelical". Then, went on to say he was "United Methodist"? I am shocked that I share a church with this man! :puke: Of the Christian denominations, Methodists tend to be more liberal, community oriented and more tolerant of homosexuality. So, I think this so called "evangelical" sect # is bologna and further illustrates this administration's perversion of the Christian faith. BTW, Pat Robertson calls Methodists "pagans". :shrug:

[mimitabby]

19. don't worry about it

he never goes to church.

[JohnKleeb]

22. there is plenty of difference between me a Catholic and a baptist

I believe that Virgin Mary and the Saints are just as important as Christ himself, I believe it is godo works not just faith that gets you in to heaven. Wait if Pat thinks the Methodists are Pagans, why does his organization support Methodist candiates such as Bush. I think the Methodists are divided by their southern and northern factions, the northern faction tends to be more accepting and the southern more traditional, I think it was either them or the espicolians that had a split in the civil war.

[truthspeaker]

13. "evangelical Christian" is a VERY broad term

It covers everyone from Jimmy Carter to Fred Phelps.

[Cheswick2.0]

15. yeah and 39 percent of them vote democratic

don't panic

[grasswire]

16. not the stat I found

According to the City University of New York's American Religious Identification Survey, the number of Americans who identify themselves as "evangelicals" more than quadrupled from 1990 to 2001, from 242,000 to 1,032,000.

[mimitabby]

21. okay, let's do the math

if 1,000,000 americans are evangelical
and 1/3 of voters are evangelical
that means only 3 million of us are voters!

[GOPBasher]

18. Good! It's an opportunity!

That's an opportunity to show all of them how to vote for Christian values -- instead of the "christian" values of the GOP -- such as loving your neighbor, turning the other cheek, blessing the peacemakers, helping the meek, having the rich give to the poor and not casting stones unless you are without sin.

[cheshire]

23. Not a problem 33.4% are not stupid to *. Lots of them can see the truth.

[Zhade]

24. And all that belief in a NON-BIBLICAL teaching.

I'm speaking, of course, of the "Rapture" and dispensationalism.