{"id":4,"date":"2007-02-11T02:41:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=4"},"modified":"2011-05-18T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:39:04","slug":"religion-and-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/religion-and-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sitting on this since Friday morning. I’m glad to finally get to post it.
\nNPR<\/A> has two stories on faith and religion in the White House.
\nThe first talks about the role religion<\/A> will play in the race.
\nThe second talks about the hurdle<\/A> former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney<\/strong> may face as a Mormon.
\nHere are some poll results from NPR’s website:
\nPublic Opinion Polls Weigh Faith and Politics<\/strong>
\nLos Angeles Times \/ Bloomberg<\/strong><\/i>
\nJune 2006
\nPercentage of 1,321 respondents who said they could NOT vote for the following presidential candidates because of religion:
\n * A Mormon candidate: 37%
\n * A Jewish candidate: 15%
\n * A Muslim candidate: 54%
\n * An evangelical Christian candidate: 21%
\n * A Catholic candidate: 10%<\/p>\n

December 2006
\nPercentage of 1,489 registered voters surveyed who could NOT vote for one of the following, even if they were presidential candidates nominated by the respondents’ party and even they and the respondents were in general agreement on most issues:
\n * A Mormon: 14%
\n * A 72-year-old: 14%
\n * A woman: 4%
\n * An African-American: 3%<\/p>\n

Newsweek<\/strong><\/i>
\nDecember 2006
\nPercentage of 864 registered voters surveyed who would NOT vote for the following for president even if they were qualified for the job and nominated by the respondent’s party:
\n * A Mormon: 25%
\n * An African-American: 3%
\n * A woman: 8%<\/p>\n

NBC News\/Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/i>
\nDecember 2006
\nPercentage of 1,006 adults who said they were very uncomfortable or have some reservations about voting for a presidential candidate who is:
\n * Mormon: 53%
\n * Jewish: 19%
\n * An evangelical Christian: 54%<\/p>\n

ABC News\/Washington Post<\/strong><\/i>
\nDecember 2006
\nPercentage of 1,005 adults who said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate for president who is:
\n * Mormon: 35%<\/p>\n

Fox News\/Opinion Dynamics<\/strong><\/i>
\nDecember 2006
\nPercentage of 900 registered voters who said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate for president who is:
\n * Mormon: 32%
\n * Protestant: 6%
\n * Roman Catholic: 10%
\n * Jewish: 10%
\n * A member of the Christian Coalition: 24%
\n * Muslim: 45%
\n * An atheist: 50%
\n * A Scientologist: 53%<\/p>\n

Percentage of 900 registered voters who said they be less likely to vote for Mitt Romney because he’s a Mormon: 24%<\/p>\n

Source: Compiled by NPR from searches of the iPOLL Databank provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, University of Connecticut.<\/i><\/p>\n

\"Barack<\/p>\n

Oh and Barack Obama<\/strong><\/A> announced his campaign for President today. I’m excited to see what happens. He reminds me of a black Jed Bartlett. I hate that I have to point out his race but at the same time I’m really excited to think that America may finally approve of someone other than a white man in the White House.
\nI posted on Obama’s faith<\/A> back in October after I read a transcript of a speech he gave earlier in the year. Seems even more pertinent now.
\nI still love this quote:“I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sitting on this since Friday morning. I’m glad to finally get to post it. NPR has two stories on faith and religion in the White House. The first talks about the role religion will play in the race. The second talks about the hurdle former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney may face as a … Continue reading Religion and the White House<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}