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November 12, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Election blurring of U.S. church, state separation draws complaints
Political watchdog and secularist groups are asking the U.S. government to investigate whether Catholic bishops and a Christian evangelical group headed by preacher Billy Graham should lose tax breaks for telling followers how to vote in this year's election.
November 07, 2012 - Religion News Service
RNS: Buddhist, Hindu make history in new Congress
Congress will become a shade more religiously diverse this January, after Tuesday’s (Nov. 6) election of the first Hindu representative and first Buddhist senator.
October 29, 2012 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch: Two St. Louis religious conventions highlight the bookends of faith and politics
As the presidential candidates move into the final week before Election Day, representatives of two groups that pollsters like to classify into religious voting blocks will descend on St. Louis.
October 23, 2012 - The San Francisco Chronicle
SF Chronicle: Most Latinos back gay marriage, poll says
For the first time, more than half of Latinos in the United States support same-sex marriage, according to a poll released Thursday.
October 21, 2012 - The Denver Post
Denver Post: Catholics lean toward Dems, but moderates can swing elections
If all Catholics listened to their bishops, then it would be easy to predict how one of the biggest blocs in the country would vote.
October 19, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Evangelical Latinos warmer to Romney
While Mitt Romney polls far behind President Obama with Latinos, one group of Hispanic voters is more closely divided — evangelical Protestants.
October 19, 2012 - Deseret News
Deseret News: Latino voters split along religious lines, while most vote Democratic
Dr. Grazie Pozo Christie was eager to help her childhood nanny register to vote.
October 18, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy: Many Latino evangelicals welcome Romney to the flock
As Mitt Romney seeks to cut into the President Barack Obama’s commanding lead among Latino voters, he might want to pay particular attention to Hispanic evangelicals.
October 18, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: More than half of U.S. Latinos favor same-sex marriage: survey
More than half of Latinos favor same-sex marriage, and Latino Catholics are much more supportive of President Barack Obama than Latino evangelicals, according to a Pew poll on religion and politics released Thursday.
October 18, 2012 - The Huffington Post
Huff. Post: Latino voters support Obama, but Catholics and Evangelicals differ widely, Pew survey finds
A new survey released Thursday shows that while Latino voters generally support the reelection of President Barack Obama by a wide margin over Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, there are wide political divisions among the population's religious groups, such as Catholics and evangelicals.
October 18, 2012 - Bloomberg
Bloomberg: Three-fourths of Latino Catholics back Obama in Pew poll
Hispanic Catholics support President Barack Obama over Republican challenger Mitt Romney by a margin of more than 3 to 1 while about eight in 10 Latinos with no religious ties back the president, according to a Pew Research Center poll.
October 18, 2012 - NBC
NBC: Latino Catholics strongly back Obama, evangelicals more divided
Latino Catholic and religiously unaffiliated registered voters strongly prefer President Obama to Governor Mitt Romney, while Latino evangelical registered voters are more divided among the two candidates, though they still favor Obama.
October 09, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: As Protestants decline, those with no religion gain
For decades, if not centuries, America's top religious brand has been "Protestant." No more.
October 09, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Number of Protestant Americans is in steep decline, study finds
For the first time since researchers began tracking the religious identity of Americans, fewer than half said they were Protestants, a steep decline from 40 years ago when Protestant churches claimed the loyalty of more than two-thirds of the population.
October 09, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Who are the ‘Nones’?
More than 13 million atheists and agnostics and nearly 33 million claim no particular affiliation.
October 09, 2012 - Time
Time: Non-religious on the rise
A new study has found that for the first time the U.S. does not have a Protestant majority.
October 09, 2012 - NPR
NPR: Study finds Americans less religious than ever
The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life has released a new study that looks at the rise of people in the U.S. who do not identify with any religion.
October 09, 2012 - United Press International
UPI: Pew: Religiously unaffiliated on rise
The number of Americans who don't identify with a religion has grown, with a fifth of adults saying they're religiously unaffiliated, a Pew survey indicated.
October 09, 2012 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Protestants lose majority in U.S. for first time; unaffiliated up
Protestants, who have played a central role in the nation’s founding and development, no longer make up a majority of Americans for the first time in history, according to a study released Tuesday.
October 09, 2012 - CNN
CNN: Survey: Protestants are no longer majority in U.S.
Following a string of recent developments that suggest waning Protestant power – like the first Supreme Court with no Protestant justices, and a Protestant-free Republican presidential ticket – a new Pew survey finds that Protestants are no longer the majority in the United States.
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