For the record, this study claims that Catholic voters who regularly attend Mass broke 67% for Romney to 32% for Obama. Remember, Catholics are obligated to attend Mass. Any voters calling themselves Catholic who aren't attending Mass regularly are secular voters.
I have no idea how accurate the results of the above study are, but statistics never tell the whole story, anyway. There are other factors influencing the votes of Christians of all denominations. Pointing the finger at Catholics specifically (or any other denomination, for that matter) will get us nowhere.
While attending services is not mandatory for Evangelicals, likewise, it’s likely that a number who claim the label of Evangelical are no more Evangelical than the twice a year Catholic is Catholic.
And if it is acceptable for Catholics to disown those secular or cultural Catholics, then it is acceptable for the Evangelical to disown the secular person who claims the label of Evangelical.
If Evangelicals are required (demanded of so to speak) to own ALL who claim the label of Evangelical, then the same standards need to be rightly applied to ALL denominations.
It can’t be a matter of *Do as I say, not as I do*.
Nobody is responsible for how others act, no matter what label they wear. What I object to is the double standard.
Cronos, how much time have you lived in the US? Are you a citizen?
It has been evangelicals who have been attacked for the loss in a number of posted articles, even though no Christian group voted as conservative as they.
As re regular attendees,to make that the comparison you would have to compare how weekly Evan. attendees voted.
Related to that,
34% of weekly Mass attending Catholics are Democrats, and an additional 19% are not affiliated with a party but lean toward the Democrats (53% identifying or leaning as Democrats). 28% of weekly attenders are Republicans and an additional 17% lean toward being a Republican (43 percent identifying or leaning as Republicans). Thus Democrats have a 10% point edge among weekly attendees, Catholics who attend Mass less. - http://cara.georgetown.edu/NewsandPress/PressReleases/pr061808.pdf (Catholic source)
Exit polls in 2008 reported that weekly churchgoing Catholics voted for John McCain over Barack Obama, by just 50 percent to 49 percent. Weekly Protestant church attendees voted for McCain over Barack Obama 66 to 32 percent. - http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/churchgoing_catholics_chose_mccain_over_obama/ (Catholic source)
Of an estimated Catholics population in the United States of almost 78 million less than 48 million attend more than once yearly. - http://www.glenmary.org/rcms2010/ (Catholic source)
Church attendance [2002-2005]: Evangelicals at approx. 60 percent showed the highest percentage of those who reported they attended services weekly or almost weekly, with 30% going more than once a week. Catholics were at 45 percent (9% more than once a week), and Jews 15 percent. Gallup poll. between 2002 and 2005. - http://www.christianpost.com/article/20060418/weekly-attendance-highest-among-Evangelical-churches.htm
Church attendance [2001]: 69% of those associated with Assembly of God churches, and 66% of other Pentecostal churches and 61% of those in non-denominational Protestant churches were the most likely to have attended in the past week (which does to mean they always do) . - Gallup poll. between 2002 and 2005. http://www.christianpost.com/article/20060418/weekly-attendance-highest-among-Evangelical-churches.htm
However, numbers from head counts show the actual rate of attendance is less than half of what the pollsters report. - http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/indv10258/readings/HadawayWhatthePolls.pdf ; http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/139575-7-startling-facts-an-up-close-look-at-church-attendance-in-america.html
From 2000 to 2004 the Catholic Church experienced an 11% decrease in its attendance percentage, followed by mainline Protestant churches which saw a 10% percentage decline, while Evangelicals experienced the smallest drop at 1%. - http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/139575-7-startling-facts-an-up-close-look-at-church-attendance-in-america.html
Christian church attendance is between 1 ½ and 2 times higher in the South and the Midwest than it is in the West and the Northeast [the latter two have the highest percentage of Catholics]. - http://www.theamericanchurch.org/facts/8.htm; http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2007/03/01/how-many-americans-attend-church-each
The states with the most frequent churchgoers were Mississippi, Alabama, S. Carolina, Louisiana, Utah Tennessee, Arkansas, N. Carolina, Georgia, then Texas. The states with the most infrequent churchgoers were Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Hawaii, Oregon, Alaska, then Washington. - http://www.gallup.com/poll/125999/mississippians-go-church-most-vermonters-least.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/22579/church-attendance-lowest-new-england-highest-south.aspx
Committed Roman Catholics (church attendance weekly or almost) versus Non-R.C. faithful church goers (see the below as as morally acceptable): Abortion: 24% R.C. vs. 19% Non-R.C.; Sex between unmarried couples: 53% vs. 30%; Baby out of wedlock: 48% vs. 29%; Homosexual relations: 44% vs. 21%; Gambling: 67% vs. 40%; Divorce: 63 vs. 46% - http://www.gallup.com/poll/117154/Catholics-Similar-Mainstream-Abortion-Stem-Cells.aspx
46 percent of Catholics who say they attend mass weekly accept Church teaching on abortion; 43 percent accept the all-male priesthood; and 30 percent see contraception as morally wrong. - Catholic World Report; 2997 survey of 1,000 Catholic Americans by Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut
31% of faithful Catholics (those who attend church weekly, 2004) say abortion should be legal either in “many” or in “all” cases. 2004, - The Gallup Organization Gallup Survey for Catholics Speak Out: 802 Catholics, May 1992, MOE ± 4%
Among Catholics who attend services regularly (weekly or more), 31% say there should be no legal recognition for homosexual relationships (marriage or civil unions), with 26% favoring allowing gay and lesbian people to marry, versus 43% of Catholics who attend once or twice a month, and 59% of Catholics who attend a few times a year or less favoring allowance of homosexual marriage. - (Pew Research Center, Religion & Politics Survey, Pre--election American Values Survey, 9/2010; http://publicreligion.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Catholics-and-LGBT-Issues-Survey-Report.pdf.)
More: http://www.peacebyjesus.com/RC-Stats_vs._Evang.html
Yup, these guys want to tell Catholic freepers to go vote D.