Posted on 11/10/2012 8:42:39 AM PST by NYer
The most anti-Catholic American president ever scooped up the Catholic vote again, winning half of all Catholics. This is down four points from 2008, but it is still an impressive feat after four years of persecuting the Church.
Historians will no doubt record the grim irony of his achievement with some wonder. He has now won the Catholic vote twice and boasts an honorary degree in law from one of the Church's most prestigious universities, all while breaking her. Saul Alinsky, who pioneered the technique of bamboozling and exploiting the Church, would be proud.
Obama also won the religious vote in general over Romney 50 to 48, another remarkable accolade for a party that tried to remove God from its platform earlier this year. That the Republicans couldn't win the religious vote amidst Obama's open war on religion is either a testimony to its ineptitude or calls into question the Romney campaign's decision to focus almost exclusively on the economy. The last Republican to win, George W. Bush, thumped John Kerry in the religious vote 51 to 48.
Romney fared better than Obama amongst regular churchgoers. But Obama still managed to poach a fair number of these from him. Almost four out of ten church-going Catholics voted for Obama and 55 percent of Catholics who go to Mass a "few times a month" voted for him, according to the Pew Forum.
The work of Obama's allies within the Church paid off. Obama's Fifth Columnists steered money into his campaign (Jesuit college and universities raised donations for him), honored his HHS secretary at Georgeown even after she hatched the contraceptive mandate, erected pro-Obama Catholic front groups like Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, motivated Catholic college students to get out and vote for him, and spread propaganda through Sisters Carol Keehan and Simone Campbell that Obama posed no threat to the Church.
Hispanic Catholics, under the tutelage of the Catholic left, voted for Obama over Romney 75 to 21. That was up three points from 2008.
Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, California, who is Congressman Paul Ryan's nemesis, complained earlier in the year that the bishops had given too much aid to "anti-Obama" forces. If that only were true. Once again, the bishops proved feckless and divided. Some bishops raised their voices against Obama; most didn't. Nor did the bishops counter Joe Biden's misrepresentations of "Catholic social doctrine" and "de fide" abortion teaching late in the campaign.
Plenty of mixed signals were sent: depending on which bishop was speaking, Biden and Paul Ryan were either equally good Catholics or equally bad ones. One bishop wrote to his flock to tell them that Ryan was as "inconsistent" in his adherence to Church teaching as Biden. Such bishops served as useful idiots for Biden, who used a campaign commercial featuring images of a crucifix to sell voters on the idea that the Obama administration embodied Catholic social justice.
The Obama campaign was worried enough about the Catholic vote to cut a few ads and set up a Catholics for Obama web site. But given the mixed signals of the bishops and given the unwillingness of Mitt Romney to hit Obama on his secularism, liberals didn't have much to fear. Obama shrewdly sensed that the HHS mandate would prove a greater political boon than liability. It nudged up the female vote and didn't cost him the Catholic one.
The Obama campaign had found a fallen-away Catholic, Michael Wear, to serve as its "faith vote coordinator." According to CNN, Wear was moved from the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships to that position in order to put out fires related to the HHS-mandate backlash.
George Soros-backed Catholic front groups also went to work putting out those fires, whose operatives enjoyed ties to Catholic chanceries. Until earlier this year, one of the US bishops's chief political advisers was John Carr, a former White House staffer under President Jimmy Carter. (Carr organized for Carter an event that openly touted support for "abortion" and the use of the federal government's power to promote "family planning" and "homosexual rights.")
Obama's divide-and-conquer strategy was bound to work again in a Church still salted with such operatives. The unholy alliance that he formed with the Church in 1980s Chicago remains intact.
The parable is about spiritual things, not money. Like many of the parables, it is at first mysterious and puzzling, and then, Aha!
Protestants include a number of minorities so the the "white, Protestant" vote would have been even higher.
And the silence of many priests added to the problem.
Didn’t hear or read a word from our pastor regarding the election at any time this year.
Catholics beg to be bamboozled.
“The Way is narrow.” And a lot of people, not willing to go down the Way, will still tell you they drew a map of the Way just in case.
Didn’t hear or read a word from our pastor regarding the election at any time this year.
And here’s what happened to one diocese that DID speak out
obama did not receive one Catholic vote .
Had a conversation with a Romney-supporting regular-mass-attending friend about another Catholic friend who doesn’t support the Second Amendment. He started to say something, and then stopped, so I finished the statement for him: She’s one of those liberal Catholics. He nodded.
Even this friend who is so loyal to the Church and so loath to say anything that will defame the Church had to admit it: The Church is wrong to be liberal on so many issues.
Not duped. They knew what they were doing.
Go to an average Catholic Mass and pick the over/under on how many times the term “Social Justice” will be mentioned.
Well, article says Hispanic Catholics went to Obama 75-21%; and Pew Forum exit polls say white Catholics went Romney 59-40%.
(Btw, in pre-election polling, Pew Forum said Latino Catholics were favoring Obama 73-19...so 75-21 sounds right...and that Latino Evangelicals, who are 14% of Latinos, were favoring Obama 50-39...so it's not only the Latino culture that is problematic...there is something about Catholic culture as well...'cause Latino Catholics favor same-sex marriage -- 54-31%...whereas Latino Evangelicals disfavor same-sex marriage 25-66%...So, what is wrong with Latino Catholic culture that is having a much greater drag, social issues wise, than other Latino religious sub-cultures? And, btw, the problem here isn't only with Latino Catholics...white Catholics favor same-sex marriage 53-37%...so that's 54% of Latino Catholics vs. 53% of white Catholics...showing us that it's the Catholic culture itself that is, in part, corruptive...)
October 2012 Pew Forum source: Latinos, Religion and Campaign 2012: Catholics Favor Obama, Evangelicals Divided
I’ve NEVER heard the term in my parish.
I’ve only heard the term from Jesuits, which does little to break the stereotype there.
I wish we had not allowed the other side to frame the issue linguistically on this. “Social justice” should really be “income equality” or “income redistribution.”
They love that word “social.” Even Social Security is not social security—it is financial security. Millions of older people are living alone, with no family around them and few friends, while the SS checks come faithfully in and their families rest content that they don’t have to worry about them. Social Security has done more to destroy our social framework than any other program.
Thank you. You told us much of what she said. I sure would have liked to hear what you said back. lol
I have weeded out a few "friends" acquaintances, starting in 2008. I tell them to their face how detestable their thinking is......
Re: this last sentence...not so...CNN exit polls said that the vote breakdown of people who attended church weekly was 59-39% Romney.
That's about 2 out of every 5 who went Obama's way.
Given that black Protestants were what I estimate to be about 43% of the overall Protestant vote, yeah, I'm sure that blacks were 2.5 times the number of other groups to represent that 39%...But that still leaves a LOT of others -- Latino Catholics, white Catholics, and white Protestants, who were also part of that figure.
I'm sure the fascist fifth column wouldn't want to see Ryan or Santorum in the limelight come 2016 without first making sure someone had “educated” the masses so they know to stay home rather than voting if there's a Catholic on the ticket in 2016.
**Such bishops served as useful idiots for Biden, who used a campaign commercial featuring images of a crucifix to sell voters on the idea that the Obama administration embodied Catholic social justice.**
They lied. This is not social justice from the Catholic point of view.
Funny that when we read about something like this, it’s against the Catholic Church and not the countless churches that support Obama.
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