Taken from two sites:
Pew finds that there still remains little room for atheists and agnostics and none-of-the-aboves in congressional aisles: “As was the case in the 113th Congress, the biggest difference between Congress and the general public is in the share of those who say they are religiously unaffiliated. This group makes up 20 percent of the general public but just 0.2 percent of Congress.” In fact the only member of Congress who describes herself as religiously unaffiliated is Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
Among the study’s other findings:
· Many of the nation’s smaller religious groups are represented in roughly equal proportion to their numbers in the U.S. adult population. Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus combined represent roughly 2 percent of American adults and 1 percent of Congress. Jews continue to have greater representation in Congress (5 percent) than in the population as a whole (2 percent), but there are five fewer Jewish members in the 114th Congress than there were in the 113th, and 11 fewer than there were in the 112th Congress.
· The new Congress includes a number of people who have had some form of religious occupation, including at least seven members who are ordained ministers.
· Of the 301 Republicans scheduled to be sworn in on Jan. 6, only one—freshman Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York’s 1st District – is not a Christian. Zeldin is Jewish.
· Fully two-thirds of the Republicans in the 114th Congress (202 members, or 67 percent) are Protestant, about a quarter are Catholic (81, or 27 percent) and 5 percent are Mormon (14).
· Democrats in the new Congress are somewhat more religiously diverse than Republicans, though not as diverse as the population as a whole. Of the 234 Democrats in the 114th Congress, 104 (44 percent) are Protestant, 83 (35 percent) are Catholic, 27 (12 percent) are Jewish, two (1 percent) are Mormon, two are Buddhist, two are Muslim, one is Hindu and one does not identify with a particular religion.
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ite-80-percent-male-and-92-percent-christian/
- http://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/when-faith-goes-washington-114th-congress-numbers
Pew finds that there still remains little room for atheists and agnostics and none-of-the-aboves in congressional aisles: “As was the case in the 113th Congress, the biggest difference between Congress and the general public is in the share of those who say they are religiously unaffiliated. This group makes up 20 percent of the general public but just 0.2 percent of Congress.” In fact the only member of Congress who describes herself as religiously unaffiliated is Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.
Among the study’s other findings:
· Many of the nation’s smaller religious groups are represented in roughly equal proportion to their numbers in the U.S. adult population. Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus combined represent roughly 2 percent of American adults and 1 percent of Congress. Jews continue to have greater representation in Congress (5 percent) than in the population as a whole (2 percent), but there are five fewer Jewish members in the 114th Congress than there were in the 113th, and 11 fewer than there were in the 112th Congress.
· The new Congress includes a number of people who have had some form of religious occupation, including at least seven members who are ordained ministers.
· Of the 301 Republicans scheduled to be sworn in on Jan. 6, only one—freshman Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York’s 1st District – is not a Christian. Zeldin is Jewish.
· Fully two-thirds of the Republicans in the 114th Congress (202 members, or 67 percent) are Protestant, about a quarter are Catholic (81, or 27 percent) and 5 percent are Mormon (14).
· Democrats in the new Congress are somewhat more religiously diverse than Republicans, though not as diverse as the population as a whole. Of the 234 Democrats in the 114th Congress, 104 (44 percent) are Protestant, 83 (35 percent) are Catholic, 27 (12 percent) are Jewish, two (1 percent) are Mormon, two are Buddhist, two are Muslim, one is Hindu and one does not identify with a particular religion.
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