I was raised Catholic, all of my Catholic relatives voted for this worthless man in the White House. When I pointed out that Catholics should not support a man who believes in third trimester abortion they ignored me. Why are so many Catholics democrats? Makes absolutely no sense!
Lousy catechesis, in my opinion. Catholics are not taught the truths about faith and morals anymore and haven’t been for a while.
Because they aren’t really Catholics.
Believe it or not, we know a woman who is now retired. She was the principal of a Catholic elementary school and is a democrat. I'll never figure it out.
When I pointed out that Catholics should not support a man who believes in third trimester abortion they ignored me. Why are so many Catholics democrats? Makes absolutely no sense!
Well Democrats and also RINOs, mind you have the three trump cards:
1) Global Warming: I find this the one that appeals the most, even if you don’t devoutly believe in abortion, perhaps you are doing the world round a favor by approving legislation such as cap and trade to keep people safe? They even argue about the starving children in Third World Countries for additional emphasis.
2) War ethics: The GOP got us into unethical wars, especially the Iraq War. Here is where they count on you to believe that they are peace-loving and forget past Democrat actions, such as starting Vietnam with Kennedy and Johnson but suddenly turning around when Nixon took the presidency, or claiming that aerial bombings and missile strikes on Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, and Kosovo were really victories without blood, if you have a memory like my own, you would know they weren’t. The liberal logic, with the few exceptions which do speak against Libya
or Afghanistan, is just as warring and devastating on the nations of the Earth, basically pays off with the fact that our own children aren’t getting killed in the wars, so it’s okay. I don’t agree with this statement, but that’s their ethic, not mine.
3) Appeasement: There is the general idea, which is often argued, that if you legalize abortion, legalize drugs, or something along those lines, that you make it go down less. Mind you, applying this blanket reasoning to every case without additional reasoning is fallacious in nature. But the political assurance is that it is less likely to concern you.
4) You can’t legislate your morality on everyone else.
Either way, I figured out a long time ago that #3 was a cop-out, #1 is an exaggeration, and with regards to #2, it’s not the leadership that is inherently moral; it’s the duty of the populace to hold them accountable, which is the point of our dear Constitution, #4 is rediculous on the fact that well, if what you believe isn’t excercised somehow, there’s not much point to believing in it, plus other “religions” such as Islam, various Christian sects, etc, preach to me, and some messed up form of morality is being legislated on us anyways, that does not need, nor should, be passed in a decent society, so I will stop caring about my morality once the other side stops caring about theirs; which won’t come anytime soon.
Either way, most religious people I have known who are either loyal to true-left Democrats or RINOs justify their stance with one of those four points.
The same reason anybody is - they want to appear to others as educated, enlightened, compassionate and superior to others. Since there is almost ZERO Catholic evangelization on the problem of evil in the world, this is what you end up with.