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Good morning. Welcome to Axios today.

It's Thursday, September 14th. I'm Nyla Boudou.

Today, Senator Mitt Romney underscores our aging political leadership.

Plus, inflation eats away at American incomes.

But first, the political gap between some clergy in their congregations.

That's today's one big thing.

White mainline Protestants are some of the country's largest religious groups.

But a new study shows their clergy tend to be more progressive than their churchgoers.

For example, about half of the clergy identify with the Democratic Party.

But the majority of church members tend to identify as Republican or independent.

Axios' Russell Contreras explains what that tells us about religion and political divisions in America today.

Russ, mainline Protestant churches are like Presbyterian or Lutheran or Episcopalian.

We're not talking about Catholics or Evangelicals here.

When we say these clergy are clearly more progressive, this isn't just about party affiliation, is it?

That's right. According to the survey from the Public Religion Research Institute,

about 90% of the clergy that were in this survey said that we should have laws protecting gay and lesbian and transgender people.

Churchgoers, however, only 77% say the same thing.

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