Many of North Carolina's leaders, from both parties, are seeing a connection between violence and mental health, and are trying to find ways to prevent future tragedies.
Although the Democrats consider themselves the diverse party, the array of religious beliefs represented at the top of the Republican Party demonstrates it has a “big tent” character as well.
North Carolina should join other states that have formed legislative working groups focused on stopping attacks against religious liberty.
CHARLOTTE — An estimated 300 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints got a boost from the U.S. Senate’s top Democrat, when Nevadan Harry Reid told the group to “be proud of who you are.” A Pew Research Center study found 80 percent of Mormons nationally identify with Republicans.
A generic GOP candidate matches up much better against Barack Obama than any of the actual presidential contenders.
There were three oddly timed reasons to dig out a long-forgotten copy of the Book of Mormon last week. Two of them involve presidential politics.
RALEIGH — A national ongoing study on teenagers and their religious practices found that Mormon youths are least likely to believe in psychics and fortune tellers, while Catholic or nonreligious teens are most willing to believe in them. According to the National Study on Youth and Religion, Catholic and nonreligious teens also show higher rates of belief in astrology and communication with the dead than do other religious denominations. The data were culled from a survey of 3,000 Americans between ages 13 and 17, and is part of a four-year research project at UNC-Chapel Hill.
RALEIGH — Despite frequent warnings from pastoral leadership about the dangers of moral deviancy on television, conservative Protestant teenagers watch almost as much TV as their non-religious peers, according to an ongoing study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In contrast, teens in Mormon families average 11 hours of TV viewing per week, five hours less than the overall average of 16 hours, while black Protestant teens watch 23 hours of television per week. The data were culled from a survey of 3,000 American teenagers between ages 13 and 17, and is part of a four-year research project at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science.
RALEIGH — Contrary to “widespread and persistent stereotypes,” most American adolescents are not alienated from or hostile toward organized religion, and as much as two-thirds of those youth closely agree with the religious beliefs of their parents, a UNC-Chapel Hill study says. It reported that “only about 10 to 20 percent of adolescents manifest severe emotional disturbance,” which they said mirrors the adult population, while “only between 5 and 10 percent of families see a dramatic decline in the quality of parent-child relationships during the teen-age years.”
RALEIGH — Contrary to “widespread and persistent stereotypes,” most American adolescents are not alienated from or hostile toward organized religion, and as much as two-thirds of those youth closely agree with the religious beliefs of their parents, a UNC-Chapel Hill study says. The findings were released Tuesday as part of a four-year research project, the National Study of Youth and Religion. The authors said their findings refute the notion of a “storm and stress” stereotype found in old clinical sampling biases and popular books on youth.
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