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Public Religion Research VIDEO: PRRI bd mbr D. Gushee, colleague P. Laarman talk post-Xn Rt era, LGBT issues, evangelical women. The 8 minute exchange on refocusing the debate around same-sex marriage worth a watch. What do you make of Gushee's point that regardless of what one's position on the morality of gay and lesbian relationships, we s...hould support some legal recognition of those relationships, especially to have a legal vehicle that supports permanence and also provides for the protection of the children in those families in the case that they break up?
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David Gushee & Peter Laarman
Public Religion Research Francis @ELCA: Faith advocates on healthcare lift up names & faces of those without lobbyists in halls of power rather than own interests. Francis names money, votes & moral persuasion as influential on the Hill. How much impact do you think faith-based advocates are having on healthcare & other top issues?
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by Robert D. FrancisOver the weekend, a congressman reminded me that the two things that elected officials respond to are dollars and votes. Unseemly as it sounds, this is conventional wisdom in Washington.The ...
Public Religion Research Believe Out Loud campaign cites PRR data: 79% mainline clergy say homosexuals should have same rts as othr Americans. @christianpost. Nearly 2/3 also support either same-sex marriage (33 percent) or civil unions (22%). Q: Do you think clergy speak out about their honest views on gay and lesbian issues with their parishioners?
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Mainline Protestant churches are the target of a new campaign that urges "loud," rather than silent, support for gays and lesbians.
Public Religion Research @nprnews nearly 8-in-10 Americans believe in miracles, including young millenials who are less religiously affiliated and even a majority of those who say they don't attend religious services according to @pewforum. What accounts for this high level of belief in miracles?
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A survey from the Pew Forum on Religion showed that a vast majority of Americans, nearly 80%, believe in miracles. The results are from a wider study, "Religion Among the Millennials." Greg Smith from the Pew Forum on Religion talks about the widespread belief in miracles.
Public Religion Research Obama's faith council first year recommendations focus on enforcing church-state safeguards and informing service recipients of religious liberty rights. But it stayed away from controversial issues around religious discrimination in hiring. What's your take--if groups receive federal money should they be able to discriminate based on religion in hiring?
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Faith advisory council: Government agencies that do business with faith-based social service groups should be required to monitor and enforce church-state safeguards.
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Believe Out Loud Campaign featured @usatoday, cites PRR Mainline Clergy Voices Survey data on support for LGBT rights and welcome in churches. The article incorrectly cites our numbers as measures of rights, though. The numbers cited there are clergy who hold a range of supportive or opposing underlying attitudes on a ...sexual orientation belief scale we developed for the survey. Support for most rights are much higher. See PRR website research page for details at http://www.publicreligion.org/research/p
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Faith & Reason: A conversation about religion, spirituality & ethics
Note: The following is cross-posted from the Beatitudes Society social network (Be@ts 2.0), where I was the guest writer for Lent this week.Growing up as a Southern Baptist in Mississippi, Lent never got much play. Nor for that matter did any other season of the liturgical calendar. Advent, Epiph...
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Quinnipiac poll: 57% to 36%, Americans say openly gay service
members should be allowed to serve in military. PRR analysis of Pew polling also shows support steady since 2005. Pew numbers are: 58% (7/05), 60% (4/06), 59% (4/09).
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Wide Support for Repealing Policy Banning Openly Gay Service Members, Though Split on how Changes Should be Implemented.
Public Religion Research At Wpost-American bias against Jews & Muslims are linked according to new Gallup poll. Interestingly, poll also found those who attend religious services more often are LESS likely to hold negative views of Muslims.
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A poll about Americans' views on Islam concludes that the strongest predictor of prejudice against Muslims is whether a person holds similar feelings about Jews.
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PCUSA members basically split on whether "only followers of Jesus Christ can be saved" (39% agree, 36% disagree). A 2007 poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that 70
percent of Americans with a religious affiliation believe many
religions can lead to eternal life.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Presbyterian Church USA's statement of faith says God through Jesus Christ delivers followers "from death to life eternal."
Public Religion Research Believe Out Loud, a campaign to support churches being fully inclusive of all, launched on Valentine's Day. The BOL campaign drew upon PRR research about Mainline Protestant clergy attitudes about homosexuality and the place of LGBT persons in the church--particularly our findings about a significant group of clergy we... called the "uncertain middle" who lean toward inclusion but have some reservations about engaging their congregations on LGBT issues. See below for Peter Laarman's article about the launch.
An Extravagant Welcome For All: Believe Out Loud, a Faith-Based LGBT Campaign, Launches | Sexuality.
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Peter Laarman is executive director of Progressive Christians Uniting, a network of activist individuals and congregations headquartered in Los Angeles. He served as the senior minister of New York’s Judson Memorial Church from 1994 to 2004. ...
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WP-ABC Poll: Most unhappy w/ federal government, know little about Tea Party mvmt, don't favor Palin. Poll also found disapproval of Congress at record highs. And despite lack of knowledge about Tea Party, "about 45 percent of all Americans say they agree at least somewhat with
tea partiers on issues, including majoriti...es of Republicans and
independents." So, PRR community, what do you make of this?
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Two-thirds of Americans are "dissatisfied" or downright "angry" about the way the federal government is working, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. On average, the public estimates that 53 cents of every tax dollar they send to Washington is "wasted."
Public Religion Research Post poll: Public evenly split on whether #hcr will pass; if fails, 48% blame Dems/Obama, 34% blame GOP. What do you make of the Democrats in Congress and Obama getting much of the blame if it fails?
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