Tea Party Movement Research Paper
TEA PARTY MOVEMENT AND RELIGION IN THE US FROM 2007 TO THE PRESENT
1. The Tea Party Movement, a religious movement a) The origins
The tea party movement takes it name from the Boston tea party which was a protest by colonists who objected to a British tax on tea in 1773. It was an historic event which marked the beginning of the American Revolution against the British monarchy in the eighteenth century. Moreover the acronym TEA stands for "Taxed Enough Already". Tea Party movement, conservative populist social and political movement that emerged in 2009 in the United States, generally opposing excessive taxation, immigration, and government intervention in the private sector. The movement began on Feb. 19, 2009, when Rick Santelli, …show more content…
Conversely, voters are significantly less likely to profess support for the tea party if they are Jewish (15 percent agree, 49 percent disagree), African-American Protestants (7 percent agree, 37 percent disagree) or atheists (12 percent agree, 67 percent disagree). The study further reveals that tea party supporters are much more likely than the average voter to list religion as the determinative factor for their stances on major social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. The Tea Party rank and file are not in fact secular libertarians but are social conservatives largely drawn from the ranks of the Christian …show more content…
It follows the American values and want to come back to basics and biblical morality. We talk about fundamentalism : people believe in God and creation, they think about what the founding fathers would do. They trust in god and not in the government because ther don't like governement to take part of their life.
Religion takes a big part in the tea pary movement, it is the center of this movement :A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute reveals that 57 percent of Tea Partiers agree that "America is and always has been a Christian nation."
Support for tea party among religious groups : white protestant and catholic agree with the movement but Jewish and unaffiliated disagree. Moreover, we saw that Tea party is a republican movement and there are more republican who believe in God than democrat (92 against 77 percent). Some polls show that most people who agree with the religious right also support the Tea Party. All these facts are proving that religion has a big influence in the movement's
1. The Tea Party Movement, a religious movement a) The origins
The tea party movement takes it name from the Boston tea party which was a protest by colonists who objected to a British tax on tea in 1773. It was an historic event which marked the beginning of the American Revolution against the British monarchy in the eighteenth century. Moreover the acronym TEA stands for "Taxed Enough Already". Tea Party movement, conservative populist social and political movement that emerged in 2009 in the United States, generally opposing excessive taxation, immigration, and government intervention in the private sector. The movement began on Feb. 19, 2009, when Rick Santelli, …show more content…
Conversely, voters are significantly less likely to profess support for the tea party if they are Jewish (15 percent agree, 49 percent disagree), African-American Protestants (7 percent agree, 37 percent disagree) or atheists (12 percent agree, 67 percent disagree). The study further reveals that tea party supporters are much more likely than the average voter to list religion as the determinative factor for their stances on major social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. The Tea Party rank and file are not in fact secular libertarians but are social conservatives largely drawn from the ranks of the Christian …show more content…
It follows the American values and want to come back to basics and biblical morality. We talk about fundamentalism : people believe in God and creation, they think about what the founding fathers would do. They trust in god and not in the government because ther don't like governement to take part of their life.
Religion takes a big part in the tea pary movement, it is the center of this movement :A recent poll by the Public Religion Research Institute reveals that 57 percent of Tea Partiers agree that "America is and always has been a Christian nation."
Support for tea party among religious groups : white protestant and catholic agree with the movement but Jewish and unaffiliated disagree. Moreover, we saw that Tea party is a republican movement and there are more republican who believe in God than democrat (92 against 77 percent). Some polls show that most people who agree with the religious right also support the Tea Party. All these facts are proving that religion has a big influence in the movement's