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How Barack Bamboozled Catholics
Real Clear Religion ^ | November 9, 2012 | George Neumayr

Posted on 11/10/2012 8:42:39 AM PST by NYer

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1 posted on 11/10/2012 8:42:43 AM PST by NYer
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To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...

Not surprisingly, the USCCB provided poor leadership leading up to this election.


2 posted on 11/10/2012 8:44:08 AM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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There is no bigger supporter of the welfare state and thus welfare state politicians and the Dem party than the Catholic bishops. They love this destructive system based on envy, jealousy, covetousness, bitterness and theft. They promote this all the time and then they say oh, no, don’t vote for pro-abortion candidates. Good luck with that. Choosing which sins are ok and which are not is kinda tricky business.
Most Christians would rewrite Jesus’s parable and take the golden talents from the man with 5 and give them to those who had fewer or none. Our welfare state is an anti-Christ scheme and most “Christians” think it all love and light.


3 posted on 11/10/2012 8:44:28 AM PST by all the best (`~!)
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I wonder how much the HISPANIC vote attributes to this. Wonder how he did with white Catholics.


4 posted on 11/10/2012 8:51:00 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: all the best

Spot on! More importantly, since Obama took more than 50% of the catholic vote, he will shirk any challenge by the USCCB on the HHS mandate.


5 posted on 11/10/2012 8:52:14 AM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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The Catholics who voted for Obama were not bamboozled.

The ancient Hebrews were repeatedly threatened with death for offering their children as burnt sacrifices to the pagan god Baal-Moloch, but they still did so. While they called themselves Hebrews, they could not resist hedging their bets, in the hope of unearned prosperity and success.

Largess corrupts. When offered the choice, many will choose the possibility of “free stuff” over their own soul.


6 posted on 11/10/2012 8:53:24 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (DIY Bumper Sticker: "THREE TIMES,/ DEMOCRATS/ REJECTED GOD")
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[ Hispanic Catholics, under the tutelage of the Catholic left, voted for Obama over Romney 75 to 21. That was up three points from 2008. ]

Oh, here it is. And yet, we hear over and over how this Hispanic Catholics are a natural conservative constituency if we would only grant them amnesty! BS!


7 posted on 11/10/2012 8:54:16 AM PST by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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I’m Protestant but happened to be in FL earlier this week and went to a Catholic church with my friends. The priest just said we shouldn’t hate those with whom we disagree. That was it. So a POTUS who believes in infanticide shouldn’t be hated...especially by Catholics???


8 posted on 11/10/2012 8:54:22 AM PST by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
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From the article: Hispanic Catholics, under the tutelage of the Catholic left, voted for Obama over Romney 75 to 21. That was up three points from 2008.

The only "good thing" here is that Latino Catholics didn't turn out very well...They are over 1/3rd of all Catholics...yet were still only 20% of the Catholic vote.

White Catholics turned out in less # than either 2008 or 2004, and yet still turned out better than Latino Catholics.

9 posted on 11/10/2012 8:54:27 AM PST by Colofornian (Some say "we're not voting 4 'pastor-in-chief'" --as if "gods-in-embryo" were divine only on Sundays)
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Nonsense, little barry soetoro bastard is supported gladly by a host of cinos.


10 posted on 11/10/2012 8:55:01 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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America will collapse. These welfare leaches will get no more free money. Then what will the Catholic jackass say.
11 posted on 11/10/2012 8:56:13 AM PST by Logical me
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Obama only “wins” Catholics because of the Latinos and CINOs whose last experience in the church was baptism.

Don’t let that stop me from ruining the circular firing squad us Christians have going though, Everybody seems to enjoy it too much.


12 posted on 11/10/2012 8:58:37 AM PST by Shadow44
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He didn't fool anyone.

The so-called Catholics who voted for him decided a long time ago that their faith is no where as important to them as their politics and a lot of other things, especially contraception and fitting in. They're just another clique who claim to be Christian but who in reality believe in going along to get along and not much else.

13 posted on 11/10/2012 8:58:55 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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For many years, the Catholic Church tolerated the Kennedys, Pelosi and many other heretics.

Why should anyone be surprised when members support Obama?


14 posted on 11/10/2012 8:59:02 AM PST by Rides_A_Red_Horse (If there is a war on women, the Kennedys are the Spec Ops troops.)
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They tried the threat of eternal agony to get people to sign up for their socialistic schemes and that didn’t work.

Time to break out the guns.


15 posted on 11/10/2012 9:01:26 AM PST by DManA
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THIS white Catholic voted for Romney,but,alas,I’m obviously outnumbered by the folks that live as perpetual victims,whose 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!

(...and,of course,her husband is a retired UNION sheet metal worker,so naturally after all his complaining HE votes straight democrat,too!)


16 posted on 11/10/2012 9:02:55 AM PST by massmike (At least no one is wearing a "Ron Paul - 2016" tee shirt........yet!)
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To: KansasGirl
I wonder how much the HISPANIC vote attributes to this. Wonder how he did with white Catholics.

The "white Catholic" vote went for Romney 56-43. That's not very different from the overall Protestant or the "mainstream Protestant" vote. Latino and Black voters were heavily for Obama, and White Evangelicals heavily for Romney. I put "white Catholic" in quotes because as the government keeps telling us, "Hispanics can be of any race."

17 posted on 11/10/2012 9:04:34 AM PST by x
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Looks like you need to include the US Bishops in the number of CINO's.

They love and have pursued 99% of social justice junk like Obamacare...all but the abortion stuff.

18 posted on 11/10/2012 9:05:28 AM PST by what's up
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This is really sad that some people want the Catholic Church to be a arm of the Republican party or perhaps to make the Republican party an arm of the Catholic Church. Either way is a loser for the Bishops.


19 posted on 11/10/2012 9:08:16 AM PST by ex-snook (without forgiveness there is no Christianity)
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According to reuters -

Hispanic Catholics were far more likely to favor Obama - by 76 percent to 23 percent - than white Catholics, who favored Romney by 56 percent to 43 percent,

In addition -

The Pew survey found that among those voters who attend services once a week or more, 59 percent went for Romney, while 39 percent went with Obama. Among those who never attend church, six in ten went for Obama.


20 posted on 11/10/2012 9:12:18 AM PST by stop_fascism (Love your country, but never trust its government - R.A. Heinlein)
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