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Article: Regular church attendance [Corrected 04/14/04]
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- March 20, 2004
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Editor, New Era:
In response to Jack Brubaker and Stephen M. Smeltz on politics and
church attendance:
I wish Brubaker could read statistical charts as well as he writes
his books and New Era columns. He says in one of his March 10
articles that about two-thirds of regular churchgoers vote Republican
and only one-third vote Democratic. Yet the accompanying chart
indicates that 44 percent of those who attend services every week
plan to vote for a Democrat for president and only 56 percent support
Bush.
Forty-four percent is way more than one-third and 56 percent is
not two-thirds.
If weekly church attendance is not "regular," I don't know what
is. Mainline churches do not customarily hold ...