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Christian Century, Sept 4, 2007
REDNECK EVANGELICALS: It has been documented that teen sex and divorce are as common among evangelicals as the rest of the population, leading some to charge that evangelicals are concerned about family values in the public square because they can't get their own house in order. But W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia says that there is a significant difference between the behavior of weekly churchgoing evangelicals and nominal ones.
Among weekly churchgoing evangelicals, for example, 12 percent of births are outside of wedlock; among the rest of the population the figure is 33 percent. Nominal evangelicals have sex before other teens, they cohabit and have children out of wedlock at rates similar to the rest of the population, and they're more likely to get divorced than the average American. The reason, says Wilcox, is that nominal evangelicals tend to be poorer, less educated and part of an Appalachian "redneck" culture (Wall Street Journal, August 10).
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