 Citing Wade Clark Roof, a sociologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the articles stated that about 42% of baby boomers were dropouts from formal religion, 33% had never strayed from church, and 25% of boomers were returning to religious practice.The boomers returning to religion were "usually less tied to tradition and less dependable as church members than the loyalists.They are also more liberal, which deepens rifts over issues like abortion and homosexuality."