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A Rising Catholic Tide of Resistance May Determine the U.S. Presidential Election
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| 1/26/12
| Keith A Fournier
Posted on 01/26/2012 12:15:54 PM PST by tcg
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Answer: those very same people pulled the Democrat lever because their union (or some other form of self-interest) told them to do so. I am a regular participant in the March for Life. I don't agree with you. Eevidence obtained by talking with folks there suggests that, quite simply, you are wrong. These are NOT demonicRat voters.
The Catholics at the March (the adults, anyway) are a subset of (for lack of a better term) the "True Believers"; those who believe and practice the Church teachings. "Practice" includes voting.
During a very good year, the March will draw a few hundred thousand folks, mostly Catholics. That's a small subset of the Catholic Population of these United States. It's even a small subset of the about 50% of Catholic voters who regularly vote for Republicans.
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posted on
01/26/2012 2:57:48 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Solson
Catholics are two voting blocs in these US. One bloc is those for whom “Catholic” describes a faith and a religion which they believe and practice, and which forms the basis of their way of life. These vote primarily for Republicans. The other bloc is those for whom “Catholic” is a secularized cultural identity. They were baptized as children, but do not believe the faith, nor practice the religion, nor allow it to have any particular influence over their lives. These primarily vote for Democrats.
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posted on
01/26/2012 3:03:36 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: lurk
The Catholics I know personally are Marxists.Not my parish. The day after Obama was elected, I said a special intention for our President-elect. When I said his name, there was a chorus of boos from my students...6th graders.
It was a teachable, and Kodiak, moment. lol
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posted on
01/26/2012 3:03:48 PM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
To: Night Hides Not
Here's another Kodiak Moment for you:
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posted on
01/26/2012 3:07:08 PM PST
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: lurk
The Catholics I know personally are Marxists.Correction: Some people who you know that are Marxists falsely claim to be Catholics.
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posted on
01/26/2012 3:45:14 PM PST
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Answer: those very same people pulled the Democrat lever because their union (or some other form of self-interest) told them to do so.Fecal logic. Catholics who march against Roe v. Wade in the rain don't vote for pro-infanticide candidates.
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posted on
01/26/2012 3:49:55 PM PST
by
A.A. Cunningham
(Barry Soetoro is a Kenyan communist)
To: A.A. Cunningham
I think that you are wrong about that. Many, if not most, of the standing-in-the-rain pro-life demonstrator Catholics vote for Democrats. They want high taxes on the rich, to be spent on social services, and they oppose Republican policies on law and order. They support very strong protections for organized labor, high minimum wages, affirmative action and strong regulations. They despise Republicans as war mongers. They stand for complete amnesty for Hispanic illegal aliens. Some pull the lever for pro-choice Democrats as the lesser of two evils ... but many others do so with great enthusiasm.
To: only1percent
How big a demographic do you really think that is?
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posted on
01/26/2012 4:52:02 PM PST
by
x
To: only1percent
How big a demographic do you really think that is? I’m not talking about union-members who might be pro-life and vote Democrat, so much as about these pro-amnesty, pro-affirmative action, anti-law and order, anti-war, pro-life Catholic Democrats. Sounds like a very small group of people, comparatively speaking.
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posted on
01/26/2012 4:56:08 PM PST
by
x
To: tcg
Catholics in the United States are rising up in a Tide of Resistance to the unjust actions and edicts of the Obama Administration. Do they have any idea Obama will eventually hook or by crook get the Catholic Hospitals to say no mas and exit the Heath Care Market by either closing shop oe selling out?
Do they have any idea what evil comes their way or are they finally waking up?
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01/26/2012 5:10:34 PM PST
by
taildragger
(( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
To: x
No clue about its numerical size ... the point I am making is that the redistributionist / "unrent garment" types are very common among even the politically active clergy and laity.
They all believe that Democrats get it more often right on "whatever you do to the least of me" / Beatitudes issues than do Republicans.
Some of them simply don't regard abortion more important individually than the accumulation of other issues. If you were to offer these people the revocation of Roe vs. Wade the cost of which were reducing food stamps and deportimg illegal aliens, they would turn it down without hesitation. They vote Democrat easily.
Some do regard abortion as more important in theory, but believe it is not legitimately at issue in practice, because they see Republicans as using opposition to abortion to trick religious people into supporting an anti-poor, pro-war agenda that they would otherwise reject. (These people tend to think the same about gay marriage.) Plenty of these people are active conspiracy theorists, where capitalists schemed to make sure that enough of the post-Roe Supreme Court Justices appointed by Republicans would vote to preserve Roe, and the ability to rile up working class Christians indefinitely. The bottom line is that they simply can't regard any Republican as a vehicle for the Catholic social justice theology that for them is the only point of political engagement.
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