By: Chuck Warnock
Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010
Based on the recent New York Times poll of tea partiers, you are likely to find them sitting in your church pews. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Should pastors or church leaders encourage, discourage or ignore tea partyadvocates among their members or visitors on Sunday morning? Let’s take a look at what the New YorkTimes poll found.
- 18 percent of Americans identify themselves as tea party supporters.
- They tend to be Republican, white, male, married, and older than 45.
- They are better off financially than most of the country.
- They are no more or less anxious about losing socioeconomic status than others.
- They classify themselves as “very conservative.”
- They don’t like the recently passed healthcare bill, government spending and the feeling their voice is not being heard in Washington.
- They do not believe President Obama shares the values most Americans live by, and that he doesnot understand their problems.
- More than 50 percent of them think government favors the poor, and 25 percent believe government favors blacks over whites (vs. 11 percent of the general public that thinks so).
- They are angry.
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