"This study explores the relationships between religiosity and attitudes toward public issues in a random national sample of 419 members of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Church members favored liberal social-political causes as long as the church itself does not become involved. On the other hand, a sizable minority (44%) considered itself to be Republican, and few designated themselves political liberals. In 1984, Adventists voted disproportionately for Reagan, and this voting behavior was accompanied by self-identification with a conservative ideology. A variety of religiosity factors, such as orthodoxy, religious practice, openness to change were found to be related to such public issue factors as peace and justice, political involvement of individual Christians and corporate churches, law and order, and government intervention in social causes. However, not all findings supported the theoretical framework. Political consistency theory was employed to attempt to explain the diverse findings."