Posted on 01/23/2014 8:46:07 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Note to my Catholic Democrat brothers and sisters:
In this world you may have either knowledge or repose; but you may not have both.
Your Church and your religious freedoms are under an ongoing attack being carried out under the direct control of Barack Obama, a man many of your helped put in office. While you were taking care of yourselves and your families and trusting in the wrong people, your Democrat Party has turned on you and your Church. You must now choose which one to stand with.
There may have been a time long ago when we could be both good Catholics and good Democrats but that alliance is now a relic of the past.
Holding on to the comfort of uninformed robotic voting...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Gingrich and Santorum are both Catholics, but the Mormon cleaned up with the Catholic voters in the primaries.
Crisis Magazine
*Why Catholics Love Mitt Romney*
""Why won’t American Catholics get behind the very Catholic Rick Santorum?
From New Hampshire to Nevada, he has lost the Catholic vote in nearly every state where Republicans have gone to the polls to elect their nominee for president. The only slight exception is Tennessee*, where he carried the Catholic vote by a whopping one percent.
Instead, Catholics have gone for a Mormon: Mitt Romney.
(snip)
Romney is struggling among Evangelicals, however, and Santorum is not. ""
======= *BLAZE ANALYSIS: THE CATHOLIC VOTE WENT TO OBAMA OVER ROMNEY DESPITE CONTRACEPTION & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM DEBATES*
Reading the rest of the article you site shows the following: “Catholics who report attending church weekly voted for Romney over Obama 57 percent to 42 percent.”
Those of us who are actually Catholic know I was talking about the 42% here. We don’t consider people who say they are “Catholics” but don’t practice their faith to be Catholics. The media love to count anyone who ever waited for a bus in front of a Catholic Church a Catholic - unless of course that person doesn’t vote Democrat then like those who have stopped looking for work, they are not counted at all.
They are Catholics, baptized members of the Catholic denomination, a denomination that the democrats import it’s members by the millions.
As pro-life conservatives learn how the Catholic vote has always been owned by the democrat party, that they really care about some internal trivia as you posted?
In recent elections have the older, white, Catholics become less liberal, yes, not very conservative, not even close to Evangelicals, and it is meaningless anyway.
The Catholic denomination is not a race, it is a particular church denomination, and one that the democrats import 100s of thousands more of every year.
Maybe because there are fewer Catholics in the GOP. Also Gingrich and Santorum were outspoken war mongers. But you have a point, Catholics vote on more than religion. I think if Clinton runs, a Pope Catholic would be the best opponent.
The percentage of Catholics in the GOP has nothing to do with them not supporting Catholic conservatives in the primary, rather than the liberal Mormon.
Catholics supported Clinton over Bush and Dole.
Then why has the GOP never nominated a Catholic for President?
I think you are confused.
The percentage of Catholics who are republican, has nothing to do with why the “Catholic” republicans did not prefer the conservative Catholic primary candidates, over the liberal Mormon candidate.
If you think I’m confused straighten me out please.
1] I say conservative and liberal are not Catholic issues
2] I ask why the GOP has never nominated a Catholic candidate for President.
You do seem confused.
“”I say conservative and liberal are not Catholic issues”” what the heck does that mean?
“”I ask why the GOP has never nominated a Catholic candidate for President.”” I don’t know why that is important to you.
Why aren’t you interested in learning what I posted to you in regards to that, why did Catholic republicans vote against the conservative Catholics in the primary?
“”Gingrich and Santorum are both Catholics, but the Mormon cleaned up with the Catholic voters in the primaries.
Crisis Magazine
*Why Catholics Love Mitt Romney*
“”Why won’t American Catholics get behind the very Catholic Rick Santorum?
From New Hampshire to Nevada, he has lost the Catholic vote in nearly every state where Republicans have gone to the polls to elect their nominee for president. The only slight exception is Tennessee*, where he carried the Catholic vote by a whopping one percent.
Instead, Catholics have gone for a Mormon: Mitt Romney.””
From your article. Now see if you understand why.
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“In addition to being drawn to executive experience, Catholics can relate to how Romney has lived his life. He married his high school sweetheart and had many children. He made a successful career in business all the while remaining active in his local church. Romney is someone Catholics know.
Catholics thought they knew Rick Santorum. He’s a family man all right, but once Santorum caught Potomac fever, it was too hard to break. Santorum made his name in Washington, and even before entering the halls of Congress he was lobbying as a young attorney in Pittsburgh. Santorum’s experience as a representative in Congress doesn’t jive well with how the Church is run. As much as some Catholics would like the Church to be a democracy, it isn’t.”
You generally have to die to become a good Democrat.
So you seem to agree with republican Catholics rejecting conservative Catholic candidates like Gingrich and Santorum for the ultra liberal, anti-conservative, pro-abortion, pro-gay Mormon Bishop Romney, which mirrors the fact that the majority of Catholics vote pro-abortion democrat anyway.
I don’t know what all your posting is about, what is your point?
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