{"id":1799,"date":"2012-10-14T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/10\/the-gops-secularism-problem.html"},"modified":"2012-10-14T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T17:12:00","slug":"the-gops-secularism-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/10\/the-gops-secularism-problem.html","title":{"rendered":"The GOP\u2019s Secularism Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

There\u2019s been much angst on the right over the Republican Party\u2019s growing demographic problems, most memorably by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, who said the party was running out of \u201cangry white guys.\u201d But conservatives may be facing another demographic threat as well: declining religiosity, especially among the young. The latest sign came in a Pew study released last week that found that one in five American adults now claims no religion, and that 34 percent of those younger than 30 consider themselves irreligious.<\/span>

<\/span>The GOP\u2019s own base may be partly to blame. The data echoes a landmark 2010 study,\u00a0<\/span>American Grace<\/i>, by political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell, which linked the new chilliness toward organized religion to the rise of the religious right. Other recent studies bear out their hypothesis: in March, Pew found that a majority of the electorate, including nearly half of Republicans, is uncomfortable with the amount of religious talk in political campaigns. (As recently as 2006, the majority tipped the other direction.) Mitt Romney has avoided talking about his Mormonism<\/a>, and voters like it that way: in July, eight in 10 Americans who knew about Romney\u2019s Mormonism said they didn\u2019t care, and only 16 percent of the entire electorate was interested in hearing more about Romney\u2019s faith.<\/span>

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There\u2019s been much angst on the right over the Republican Party\u2019s growing demographic problems, most memorably by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, who said the party was running out of \u201cangry white guys.\u201d But conservatives may be facing another demographic threat as well: declining religiosity, especially among the young. The latest sign came in a Pew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe GOP\u2019s Secularism Problem<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There\u2019s been much angst on the right over the Republican Party\u2019s growing demographic problems, most memorably by GOP Sen. 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