The way you know statistical spreads in politics are a strange thing is that he got nearly 1/3 of Buddhists

A third of UCCs shocks me more.

As a mutual over on the old site put it, we've still some practitioners of "white Shinto" like Carlson. And there's a lot of rural parishes and older folks who liked the cut of HW's jib. But we're also very much a Red and Blue church. Not a purple one.

Like, it used to be a running joke that the RNC was basically a vestry meeting. The Philadelphia 11 (and CRM) started the church moving, but it still has quite a bit to do.

Tucker Carlson is in TEC. the south still has a bunch of social conservative holdouts that didn't split into ACNA

ah okay TIL

I was gonna say, there was some kind of schism, right? I don’t know the details either. But you know the drill. Gays, lady bishops, blah blah.

and there's a solid chunk of the ACNA that split for basically church governance rule reasons who are basically TEC theologically. anecdotally these seem more common on the West Coast.

C4SO?

i didn't even know about them but I'm seeing Rocky Mountain geographical diocese churches on the Wikipedia list of churches that were helping support C4SO setup

Diocese of the Rocky Mountains is recently formerly the western chunk of PEARUSA before it was handed fully over to local control and had administrative splits.

*sigh* it me

getting really inside baseball for a moment, the acna diocese of the Rocky Mountains has an agreement to not argue about women clergy and gay membership and every priest I've gotten to know well so far from it was TEC-adjacent and was careful to make sure i knew their split reason was governance

My wife grew up Episcopalian, and her church's priest was the son-in-law of Ollie North of Iran Contra fame. The size of the congregation has declined, and they now share the building with a Presbyterian Church of America congregation. Lots of weird mixing these days.

I bring up the Ollie North thing because it's the most concise way I can express the overall political leanings of the church. Fun to go skeet shooting with a priest that owns several automatic guns though.

Lol as an Episcopalian this does not surprise me. We used to be nicknamed "the Republican Party at Prayer" and we skew older than other denominations. If anything, I'm surprised there's not MORE Episcopal support of Trump, though we do tend to be a bit snobby about language, so that may explain it.

Of course Atheists hate Trump. We have critical thinking skills.

despite Trump’s utter lack of any Christlike traits identifying as a Christian of any sort seems to at least somewhat increase your odds of voting for him