Posted on 11/06/2008 8:30:22 PM PST by Alex Murphy
Large numbers of Catholics and religiously unaffiliated voters heavily contributed to President-elect Barack Obama's huge margin of victory over Republican Sen. John McCain, according to an analysis of exit poll surveys by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
"Obama had a greater appeal for religious people," said John Green, a senior fellow at Pew. "I don't think we would have seen that support had Hillary [Rodham Clinton] been nominated."
Catholics voted for Mr. Obama over Mr. McCain by a nine-point margin (54 percent versus 45 percent), a turnaround from 2004 when Catholics supported President Bush over Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, by a five-point margin (52 percent to 47 percent).
Their votes came despite the warnings from 89 bishops who issued a blizzard of statements in the closing weeks of the election, warning against voting for a pro-choice candidate.
Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, who last month termed Mr. Obama "the most committed 'abortion-rights' presidential candidate of either major party since the Roe v. Wade abortion decision in 1973," led the effort.
His - and other voices from church leaders - went unheeded.
"Six months ago the pundits were predicting that President-elect Obama would not do well with Catholic voters," said Steve Krueger, national director of the Boston-based group Catholic Democrats. "The fact that Senators Obama and [Joseph R.] Biden reversed a trend, since 1996, of white ethnic Catholics defecting to the Republican Party in presidential elections is of historic significance."
Mr. Obama did especially well among Hispanics, who are overwhelmingly Catholic. Two-thirds of them voted for him compared with white Catholics, who voted for Mr. McCain 52 to 47 percent over Mr. Obama.
"Latino Catholics appear to have been decisive in flipping three states from red to blue: New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada," wrote Michael Sean Winters
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Catholics who voted for Obama should be excommunicated!!!
I am so ashamed of some of my own.
Leave the thread.
I am not Alex Murphy.
What does that statement have to do with anything? Burke would make a good one, as would the Cardinal down in TX... DiNardo (sp?)?
There are may more Defenders of the Faith around now in positions of power in the Church then there were 20 years ago.
I don't think that proves anything about the depth of the schism in Christendom, it only proves that your coworker is ... well ... ignorant, of his own religion.
Sorry mod, I don’t use potty language
I don’t think there really is such a schism. It’s just we self-identify with the label Catholic, and tend to get criticized by many in the ‘Bible based churches’ (not ‘saved’, etc). They call themselves ‘Christians’ with no other identifier, and refuse the Prot label.
So... after awhile....
But I think it’s more terminology than anything reflective of something much deeper.
In my parish, most of the time we (well, the priests) refer to ourselves as Christians.
Actual abortion in California was defeated due to Black voters.
This is reason #8 while I’ll never convert to Catholicism.
Those illegals sure must fill up the collection plates.
Your view that somehow fundamentalism in Christianity equals lack of intelligence is not only insulting in the extreme but erroneous as well.
And if you paid attention to over 100 Bishops as well as Pope Benedict and form Pope John Paul you would know that pro life issues are the foundation of social justice teaching. It does no good to weep and moan over poverty if you are willing to see the preborn baby of a poor women sucked and sliced out of her womb and tossed in a biohazard container.
I strongly suggest you spend some time reading actual Catholic teaching.
Wherever do you get the ‘They hate Evangelicals’ idea? I’ll bet they don’t even THINK of Evangelicals enough to hate them.
where do this figure’s come from i don’t remember declaring my religion before i voted
Check this out...divide and conquer is a long term goal.
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