I saw that 20% stat, too...
CNN exit polls said that weekly church-attenders went Romney 59-39%.
Still, about 40% of the most avid church attenders went Obama! (That says something)
True! It means to many churches,keeping their tax-exempt status means more to them than speaking up for what’s right!
...and apparently,their fears are justified!
...add to that the folks that live as perpetual victims to whom the number one issue in their lives is more free government goodies,and northeast Catholics that vote for democrats because “John Kennedy was Catholic and he was a democrat,so that means democrats are good!” (I SWEAR that’s how some of them think).
For example:
I have this neighbor who is in her mid-sixties.She is Irish-Catholic, born in raised in South Boston,sent all her kids (that I grew up with) to Catholic schools,and was a lector at our parish for years.
A while back her husband and I were talking about how everywhere we go around here now,we feel like WE’RE in the wrong country because we’re the only two speaking English! I joked “What can we expect when we have someone in the white house that probably wasn’t born here?”
His wife jumped right in,saying how all those stories on the internet are lies! You can’t believe ANYTHING you see on the internet! (But then referencing Snopes to defend Obama!)
She went on saying how she believes Obama may not be the best president ever....and he’s BLACK....(she added THAT,I assume,as a back-handed accusation that I only dislike Obama because he’s black!),and went on with her diatribe about how she’s a born-democrat and democrats best represent the values this country was founded on! So I guess the country was founded on the murder of the unborn and gay “marriage”????????
So believe me...THIS Catholic isn’t defending catholics like her AT ALL!