re: #313 Sergey Romanov

The current choices for president for the Protestant Evangelicals in the US are Santorum— a Catholic, Romney— a Mormon, Newt —a Catholic who is currently living in sin since the Catholic church wouldn’t recognize either of his first marriages, and Obama— a Congregationalist protestant who is part of the United Church of Christ, a Protestant church with highly liberal social views that does a lot of evangelizing.

In 2001, Hartford Institute for Religion Research did a “Faith Communities Today” (FACT) study that included a survey of United Church of Christ beliefs. Among the results of this were findings that in the UCC, 5.6% of the churches responding to the survey described their members as “very liberal or progressive,” 3.4% as “very conservative,” 22.4% as “somewhat liberal or progressive,” and 23.6% as “somewhat conservative.” Those results suggested a nearly equal balance between liberal and conservative congregations. The self-described “moderate” group, however, was the largest at 45%. Other statistics found by the Hartford Institute show that 53.2% of members say “the Bible” is the highest source of authority, 16.1% say the “Holy Spirit,” 9.2% say “Reason,” 6.3% say “Experience,” and 6.1% say “Creeds.”

Of all of them, the person who is closest in religion to Evangelicals is Obama. The main difference between Evangelicals and UCC is political views on social issues.

I still half-expect Romney to get born-again during the campaign.