Why Do Baptists Have Such a High Divorce Rate?
By Richard Land – Feb 24, 2000 – The sexual revolution affects even the most devout Christians When it comes to the subject of marriage, Baptists cannot seem to stay out of the news. A couple years ago, Southern Baptists created an uproar in the national media when they added a section dealing with “the family” to their official confessional statement, The Baptist Faith and Message. This statement proclaimed that God had “ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society” and that marriage “was the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime.” Now, the widely respected Barna Research Group has released the results of an in-depth study which found that while 25 percent of American adults have been divorced at least once, the divorce rate is even higher (27 percent) among self-identified “born again” Christians and higher yet (29 percent) among Baptists. While the Barna research did not distinguish among the various types of Baptists (from th
