All I am looking for is a little intellectual honesty. Facts are stubborn things and no matter how badly you want the facts to corroborate your prejudices you can't situationally change the definitions mid-argument for convenience and maintain any credibility. You cannot count nonpracticing Catholics who vote Democrat as Catholics when you don't count nonpracticing Catholics who vote conservative as non-Catholics.
Peace be with you.
Intellectual honesty means counting the Catholic vote, it is a single church, with a single teaching, and a single culture, not a collection of churches of vast diversity such as the category “Protestant”, it does not mean giving a purity test to see if they should be excommunicated by the church and forbidden to identify as Catholics, and removed from being counted as Catholic by the Vatican, all according to some guys personal definition of purity.
Your religion counts them when they want to show the world how large the Catholic population is...
Besides, once they were baptized, they were filled with the Holy Spirit and became members of the Body of Christ, according to your religion...Seems they are just as Catholic as any of you...