Editing Kansas (section)

===Religion===
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| caption = Religion in Kansas (2022), per PRRI
| label1 = [[Christianity in the United States|Christianity]]
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| label2 = [[irreligion in the United States|Irreligion]]
| value2 = 23
| color2 = White
| label3 = [[Unitarian Universalism]]
| value3 = 1
| color3 = Red
| label4 = [[New Age]]
| value4 = 1
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[[File:Richard Cordley 1903.jpg|thumb|left|Rev. [[Richard Cordley]], the first graduate of the [[University of Kansas]], and nicknamed "The Abolition Preacher", due to his strong views against slavery, and his influence on Kansas's founding as a free state.]]
[[File:Charles M Sheldon.jpg|thumb|upright|Reverend [[Charles Sheldon]], Topeka resident and coiner of the phrase "[[What would Jesus do?]]".]]The 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Survey showed the religious makeup of adults in Kansas was as follows:<ref name="PEW">[[Pew Research Center]], [http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/kansas/ Religious Landscape Study: Religious composition of adults in Kansas] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518000525/http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/state/kansas/ |date=May 18, 2015 }} (2014).</ref> 57% Protestant, 18% Catholic, 1% Mormon, 1% Jehovah's Witness, 20% unaffiliated, 1% Buddhist, and 2% other religions. In 2022, the [[Public Religion Research Institute]] (PRRI)'s study revealed 74% of the total population were Christian; among them, 59% were Protestant, 13% Catholic, and 2% Mormon. The religiously unaffiliated were 23% of the population, Unitarian Universalists 1%, and New Agers 1%.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PRRI – American Values Atlas |url=https://ava.prri.org/#religious/2022/States/religion/m/US-KS |access-date=2023-04-15 |website=ava.prri.org |archive-date=April 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404161714/https://ava.prri.org/#religious/2022/States/religion/m/US-KS |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Kansas's capital Topeka is sometimes cited as the home of [[Pentecostalism]] as it was the site of [[Charles Fox Parham]]'s [[Bethel Bible College]], where [[glossolalia]] was first claimed as the evidence of a spiritual experience referred to as the [[baptism of the Holy Spirit]] in 1901. It is also the home of Reverend [[Charles Sheldon]], author of ''[[In His Steps]]'', and was the site where the question "[[What would Jesus do?]]" originated in a sermon of Sheldon's at Central Congregational Church.

Kansas is the location of the second [[Baháʼí Faith]] community west of Egypt, when the Baháʼí community of [[Enterprise, KS]] was started in 1897. From that beginning the Baháʼí Faith spread across Kansas.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herrmann |first1=Duane L |title=Early Baha'is of Enterprise |date=1997 |publisher=Buffalo Press |location=Topeka |isbn=1-879448-11-4}}</ref>

[[File:WichitaCathedralExterior.jpg|thumb|The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Wichita.]]
Topeka is also home of the [[Westboro Baptist Church]], a [[hate group]] according to the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]].<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=May 2, 2021|title=Westboro Baptist protests at Atlanta HBCU graduation ceremonies|url=https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/westboro-baptist-protests-at-atlanta-hbcu-graduation-ceremonies/85-d0901f2c-8a27-4a2b-916c-ce5ce9455155|website=11Alive.com|date=May 19, 2019|archive-date=May 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510002223/https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/westboro-baptist-protests-at-atlanta-hbcu-graduation-ceremonies/85-d0901f2c-8a27-4a2b-916c-ce5ce9455155|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=May 2, 2021|title=Anti-LGBTQ hate groups on the rise in U.S., report warns|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/anti-lgbtq-hate-groups-rise-u-s-report-warns-n1171956|website=NBC News|date=March 30, 2020|archive-date=May 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511213933/https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/anti-lgbtq-hate-groups-rise-u-s-report-warns-n1171956|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/westboro-baptist-church |title = Westboro Baptist Church |website = Southern Poverty Law Center |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110306095813/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/westboro-baptist-church |archive-date = March 6, 2011}}</ref> The church has garnered worldwide media attention for picketing the funerals of U.S. servicemen and women for what church members claim as "necessary to combat the fight for equality for gays and lesbians". They have sometimes successfully raised lawsuits against the city of Topeka.