Another missed chance to capture the top spot of some obscure demographic classification, or are we just too modest to be number one? Like opposing abortion or praying daily, Mormons appear to be the second most likely denomination to marry within their church.

According to the survey, Buddhists and the religiously unaffiliated are the most likely to have a spouse or partner with a different religious background, while Mormons and Hindus are the least likely to marry or live with a partner outside their own faith.

Not necessarily new as this comes from Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey but Pew occasionally highlights interesting tidbits like this as they did last week.

Also interesting to me as an ignoramous who sometimes confuses Buddhism and Hindusim is that they are at the opposite ends of the survey.