Worthy saying again:
Well, let’s play spin the religious vote again, kiddies! We just looove that game, we could play it over and over and over again! Sooo, here goes!
The Evangelical vote was “low” at 81%, and Republican Presidential candidate Romney made no effort to woo them, but ...
The Catholic vote was “high” at 48% with many attempts to woo them culminating in the selection of a Vice Presidential candidate who is Catholic, and the ticket didn’t even win the VP candidate’s home state ...
And then we have Presidential candidate Romney’s own religious group, the Mormons, whose support was lower than Evangelicals!
What are we to conclude? Catholics are anti-Mormon? No, they just have baggage, it’s sooo hard to break their lifelong Democrat habit, nevermind the Evangelicals went pretty much cold turkey with Reagan.
Mormons are anti-Mormon, lol?
Nooo, of course not. But, bloviating on about anti-Mormon Mormons cannot possibly be any more schizophrenic than repeatedly banging their heads upon reality, trying to pin this loss on Evangelicals.
What Evangelical stronghold state did Romney lose? What Catholic stronghold state did he win?
There are an awful lot of painful contortions going on here, in order to avoid concluding that the Catholics lost this election for Romney.
There, I said it. Post a hundred yard screed or three, parse the language to death, find some minor subset of the group that looks a little better for apologia sake. Par for the course on FR these days.
It’s still denial.
Moving this discussion in a different direction, my Pastor gave a great message after the election. He acknowledged that the culture is lost. However, he made the uplifting point that Christianity grows under persecution. His example was China. When Mao marched into Red Square it was widely believed that in China there were less then 150,000 Christians. Now we believe there are at least 100 million Christians in China.
I think as everyone is trying to find firm ground to stand on after this election one thing is clear. There really is no point in watering down our beliefs. We should stand firm in our faith and witness to the lost even as we are condemned as "intolerant and insensitive" for doing it.