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Interesting read...

Im sure theres some jokes in there and Im sure some will take offense to the findings.

Cheating varies by religious affiliation

SHANNON PROUDFOOTCANWEST NEWS SERVICE

Where you worship — and whether you worship at all — could be connected to your likelihood of straying from your marriage vows. People who identify with a faith group are less likely to cheat on their spouses than those with no religious affiliation, a new study has found. But even among the religious set, the odds vary according to denomination.


“What matters the most is being involved in a religious organization,” says Amy Burdette, co-author of the study and a post-doctoral scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Those who attend church more are less likely to cheat, and those who have more conservative views of the Bible are less likely to cheat.”


That said, Baptists are one-third less likely to wander than those with no religious affiliation, researchers found, and Catholics display similar odds. Moderate Protestants such as Presbyterians and Lutherans have 37 per cent lower odds of cheating than the unaffiliated, while liberal Protestants such as those in the United and Anglican churches are 31 per cent more faithful.


Non-traditional conservative groups such as Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses display no less likelihood of cheating than people with no religious affiliation.


“That was a little bit surprising, considering you think of these conservative religious groups as having stricter teachings about sexuality,” Burdette says.


Those belonging to “other” faiths, such as Judaism and Islam, also carry the same odds of infidelity as non-religious people, the researchers say.


The study, published in the December issue of the Journal of Family Issues, categorized faiths according to the American spiritual landscape.