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Catholic Democrats are in a terrible quandary. They vehemently disagree with the Republicans’ approach to policy, so they won’t vote for them. And since the Democratic Party’s leaders stand against religious liberty and for taxpayer-funded abortion, as well as support for stripping marriage of its meaning and endless war, they morally can’t vote for many Democrats either....

....The time for toleration is past. Democratic voters need to step up and found a new Democratic Party that is true to the traditions of the party earlier in the 20th century. What to call it? Christian Democrats? That term might have too much European baggage. Traditional Democrats? That might sound too stodgy. True Democrats? I like that one.

Tom Hoopes is the former Executive Editor of the National Catholic Editor, and was the Press Secretary for U.S. House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer.

1 posted on 09/07/2012 10:33:13 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy

Someone is under the delusion that liberal Catholics (Methodists, Presbyterians etc etc) would choose Catholicism over liberalism. Perhaps they don’t listen or hear correctly when Dem leaders say their faith informs their leftist views.

They have chosen Baal over Jesus.


2 posted on 09/07/2012 10:43:51 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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That’s it? This guy taught his daughter not to vote Republicans because they are pro war? So, how did they vote for FDR, JFK and LBJ? These Democratic Presidents would have been seen as pro war today.


3 posted on 09/07/2012 10:46:06 PM PDT by paudio (Post-racial society: When we can legitimately hire and fire a Black man without feeling guilty.)
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Catholic Democrat == Liberal Democrat

Where the heck else are they going to go except the Democrats?!?


4 posted on 09/07/2012 10:52:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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“Catholic Democrats are in a terrible quandary. They vehemently disagree with the Republicans’ approach to policy...”

They believe in a policy of using the force of government to accomplish that which they would consider a sin if they were to attempt the same act without it. It is called theft.

I doubt God will be kind to their judgment that this is some kind of loop hole they can exploit in their faith. That sure sounds like someone trying to protest their innocence when they are guilty.

Everytime a Catholic votes for a Democrat, they sin against God.

Like that little kid caught doing something wrong by their mother trying to explain why they didn’t know what they were doing was wrong....classic.


5 posted on 09/07/2012 10:54:28 PM PDT by dila813
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The idea of Democrats who aren’t atheist, baby killers, homosexuals or American haters starting their own party sounds like a great idea. It’s hard to believe family oriented, hardworking, normal people who want a decent world for their children to grow up in could watch that freak show of a Democratic convention, and not think the party has made a wrong turn.


7 posted on 09/07/2012 11:27:07 PM PDT by pallis
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Okay, Hoopes, ya got me. I love war, want war, lots of war, war all over the place. War, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, war, warwarwarwarwarwar....

It takes a stringently distilled stupidity to be as moronic as you, Hoopsie. I hope your daughter has a measureable IQ, and eventually saw through your BeeEss.


12 posted on 09/07/2012 11:51:40 PM PDT by TrueKnightGalahad
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The time is long since passed when a person who is truly Catholic can vote democrat. There is too much immorality in the democrat platform and has been for a long time. Abortion, perversion, etc., provide the excuse why Catholics can no longer vote democrat or they are not truly Catholic, but just a remnant of what a true Catholic is. There comes a time when a person cannot anymore subvert their conscience and hide from the reality that the democrats are non-religious, non-God, and just a babbling bunch of heathens. Those are the facts. Now, how are you going to vote?


22 posted on 09/08/2012 4:20:41 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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“Many of them are convinced that Republicans are too pro-war,” I told her. “And the Democrats used to be known for sticking up for the little guy — before they became so pro-abortion.”

Millions of babies have been aborted via the Democrat pro-abortion policies. Sounds like war . . . no, genocide to me.

23 posted on 09/08/2012 5:12:21 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)
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An interesting read from back in 2006.

24 posted on 09/08/2012 5:24:39 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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Yeah, they ought to form a party that totally focuses on jealousy, envy, covetousness, bitterness and theft. Forget the abortion and sodomy. Stick with fundamentals.


25 posted on 09/08/2012 5:31:49 AM PDT by all the best (`~!)
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The Democrats are just not pretending as much as they did in the past. Nothing substantively new with the dems.


26 posted on 09/08/2012 5:36:04 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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For millions of Catholics though the word “Democrat” is a snyonym for “Catholic” and shall remain so.


31 posted on 09/08/2012 7:25:09 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Who among us has not erred? Akin's the One!)
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This guy taught his daughter not to vote Republicans because they are pro war?
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?
...i can see a point about the Democrats caring more for the poor, etc.
but Republicans pro-war ?!?
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from WW1 to the bombing of Serbia, what war WASN’T with a Democrat for President ?
(and Serbia was responding to Muslim attacks,
just as we did in Afghanistan...
it would seem to me, that even an anti-war Catholic,
could understand the dangers of Islam...)


33 posted on 09/08/2012 10:06:03 AM PDT by Elendur (It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. - Thomas Jefferson)
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