{"id":179,"date":"2008-05-30T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/castingstones\/2008\/05\/southern-baptists-and-the-gene-1.html"},"modified":"2008-05-30T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:32:47","slug":"southern-baptists-and-the-gene-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/castingstones\/2008\/05\/southern-baptists-and-the-gene-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Southern Baptists and the General Culture: Marching to a Different Beat \u2013 Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LifeWay Research, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, has released some interesting results from its in-depth surveys of Southern Baptist pastors across the nation.<br \/>\nEighty percent of Southern Baptist pastors say that they currently support and plan to vote for Senator John McCain (R-AZ), the presumptive 2008 Republican nominee for president. Conversely, only one percent expressed their intention to vote for Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and zero percent supported Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY).<br \/>\nFifteen percent of the Southern Baptist pastors surveyed said they were still undecided about their presidential preference, while four percent said they intended to vote for a third-party candidate.<br \/>\nThese pastor presidential preference numbers are probably skewed slightly by the fact that only pastors were surveyed, and not non-ordained church members. Over recent history, surveys have shown consistently that Southern Baptist pastors are slightly more conservative on most issues than rank-and-file church membership.<br \/>\nStill, these poll numbers are radically at odds with the general public, where polling shows a tight race between Senator McCain and either Senator Obama or Senator Clinton.<br \/>\nWhen it comes to presidential preference, Southern Baptists are marching to the beat of a different drum than their non-Southern Baptist neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LifeWay Research, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, has released some interesting results from its in-depth surveys of Southern Baptist pastors across the nation. 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