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Study Surveys Protestant Teens
RALEIGH — Conservative Protestant teenagers are as likely as their mainline and black Protestant counterparts to engage in some socially risky behaviors, according to an ongoing national study of youth's social and religious practices. But data analyzed by the National Study on Youth and Religion revealed that the conservative and black youth are much less likely to embrace moral relativism than teens in mainline denominations, according to researchers. "Most Protestant teens report relatively high levels of moral clarity," the report said, but "moral awareness … does not always produce moral actions."