Monday, April 29, 2013

Did you Know More People are likely to date and marry outside their faith than their Political Party?

....I commissioned a nationally representative survey of about 2,500 people in 2010 and found that nearly 45% of marriages in the decade before were interfaith matches. That's more than double the 20% rate for couples married before the 1960s. 
Intermarriage is found across faiths. The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey reported that 39% of Buddhists, 27% of Jews, 23% of Catholics, 21% of Muslims, 18% of Baptists and 12% of Mormons were married to a spouse of a different faith. Regardless of income level, education, or geography, interfaith marriage among Americans is on the rise. 
But the same is not true for marriages across political parties. Among all married people, 36% have interfaith marriages, but my survey by the polling firm YouGov found that only 18% have a spouse with a different political affiliation. 
That's not much more than the 15% rate of interracial marriage reported in 2012 by Pew...
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