{"id":74202,"date":"2009-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2009\/06\/04\/brides-grooms-often-have-different-faiths\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:13:48","slug":"brides-grooms-often-have-different-faiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/2009\/06\/04\/brides-grooms-often-have-different-faiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Brides, Grooms Often Have Different Faiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\">Early summer is a traditional season for wedding ceremonies in the U.S. Data from the <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/\">U.S. Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>, conducted by the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life in 2007, shows that many marriages are between people of different religious faiths. According to the survey, Buddhists and the religiously unaffiliated are the most likely to have a spouse or partner with a different religious background, while Mormons and Hindus are the least likely to marry or live with a partner outside their own faith.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Marriage chart\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.pewresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2012\/07\/marriage.gif\" width=\"550\" height=\"574\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"small wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: left\"><span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/religions.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/religion\/\">Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey<\/a>, conducted in 2007 and released in 2008. Based on respondents who say they are married and respondents who say they are living with a partner.<\/span><span>Results for other religious groups are not reported due to small sample sizes.<\/span> Due to rounding, figures may not add to 100.\n<span>\n1. For mainline Protestants,<\/span><span>evangelical Protestants and<\/span><span>historically black Protestants, this category<\/span><span class=\"small\">includes<\/span> marriages and partnerships between people from different Protestant denominational families (e.g., a Methodist married to a Lutheran).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early summer is a traditional season for wedding ceremonies in the U.S. Data from the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life in 2007, shows that many marriages are between people of different religious faiths. 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