This is a gross simplification that disregards dozens of factors. If it were true, then you'd be laying abortion, homosexuality, rampant political-correctness, obesity, and who knows what else, at the door of Protestantism.
“This is a gross simplification that disregards dozens of factors.”
It is a simplification, but I don’t think it’s either unfair or inaccurate. We can’t speak of matters as broad as this without simplifying things to an extent. I think if you were to try to break it down and analyze the minutia, you’d still find that many of those other factors you want to take into account were heavily influenced themselves by the Reformation, because it was one of the biggest factors impacting European society for centuries.
“If it were true, then you’d be laying abortion, homosexuality, rampant political-correctness, obesity, and who knows what else, at the door of Protestantism.”
That’s just fallacious reasoning since none of those evils originated with Protestantism, they are all quite ancient. You’re also only assigning blame to one party for ills present in their society, while ignoring the ills of the other society. Also, most of those problems have only increased in severity as North American countries began moving towards secularism, so we would have to conclude, if anything, there is a negative correlation between those problems and how Protestant our society was.
And yet catholics have voted for more liberal presidents than conservative ones.
Not when you look at the voting patterns of Catholics.
And aside from what individual Catholics have admitted to me themselves with their own mouths and told poll takers, it's clear that Catholics vote more liberal as the most heavily Catholic areas traditionally vote in the most liberal politicians.
There's no legitimate way to blame shift that away from Catholics.