Posted on 10/08/2016 5:02:00 AM PDT by daniel1212
More than half of all U.S. Catholics (52 percent) would cast a vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton if the election were held today, compared to just 32 percent for Republican Donald J. Trump...
More than three in four (76 percent) non-white and Hispanic Catholics would pick Clinton, with 13 percent choosing Trump.
Among white non-Hispanic Catholics, Clinton holds a much smaller lead, 44 percent to 41 percent....
Six in 10 (62 percent) white evangelicals say they would vote for Trump today, while 47 percent of white mainline Protestants pick Trump.
That comes from a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, whose findings mirror a similar poll conducted earlier this summer by the Pew Research Center.
Trump’s trouble with Catholic voters was foreshadowed during the primary season, when a group of reliably conservative Catholics urged their fellow believers in the Republican Party to resist Trump, even after he had all but sewn up the nomination.
Those concerns were renewed this week when The Hill reported on comments made by the newly tapped C.E.O of the Trump campaign, Stephen Bannon. The former head of the conservative website Breitbart News had accused the Catholic Church of supporting immigration reform only to boost its own membership.
“I understand why Catholics want as many Hispanics in this country as possible, because the church is dying in this country, right? If it was not for the Hispanics,” he said in March during a radio interview with Princeton University Professor Robert George..
Nearly seven in 10 (68 percent) of U.S. Catholics say they support same-sex marriage, up from just 35 percent in 2003. At the same time, Catholics are about split when asked if support for same-sex marriage goes against their religious beliefs (45 percent say that it does)... of the Catholic “Never Trump” movement.
About six in 10 Catholics (63 percent) say businesses should not be allowed to refuse services to gays and lesbians based on religious objections.
When it comes to how friendly religious institutions are to L.G.B.T. people, Catholics think better of their church than the American public does. Almost half of all Americans consider the Catholic Church to be “somewhat or very unfriendly” to L.G.B.T. people, with 35 percent seeing the Catholic Church as friendly.
The numbers are switched for Catholics, with 49 percent saying the church is friendly and 45 percent who say it is not.
While U.S. bishops have made fighting same-sex marriage a priority for several years, just 37 percent of Catholics report hearing the issue discussed by their priest in the past few months.
Do any major Protestant sects (Anglican/Episcopal, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian) have a blanket ban on female clergy? A blanket ban on divorce/remarriage?
Nor does your link show that the Catholic church took action and disciplined those who are not adhering to Catholic teaching on moral issues.
Who is daniella? I can’t find that poster.
See # 181; the Catholic and Orthodox churches are the last ones that can trace the faith back 2,000 years.
Post your own polls to disprove daniels.
Go ahead. We’re waiting to see them.
embarrassing? that would be chicks like you who mindlessly nod your head up and down to a thread which relies on left wing sources polls...good for you
The rcc can trace its existence back to around the 4th century. It is absent prior to that.
yes- because the Catholic church should judge, not Jesus Christ...
hypocrisy thy name is metmom.
Dude, I. Will. Type. This. Real. Slow. For. You. I. Posted. Catholic. Voting. Patterns. In. Presidential. Elections.
Our first Pope walked with Jesus Christ. Are you referring to Nicea?
Say, you don't play chess do you?
FWIW, Protestant churches were absent until 500 years ago. They are in a different class then the Orthodox churches of the schism (which are not considered heretical by the Vatican).
Nope. Peter was not the first pope try as much as the Catholic will,claim.
Well, if I were Protestant that might bother me. But as a follower of Christ that makes me a Christian.
Lol, no I don’t post there, but I glance at it from time to time, and have done so for longer than you’ve been here.
We believe Jesus Christ appointed him as such; people who don’t believe that usually don’t believe there is/was any pope. When we know who was right, we can’t change anything; we will already be facing our judgment.
Good; no offense was intended.
Do any of the Protestant churches resemble their former selves from even 100 years ago in terms of doctrine?
A lot of the ECFs who Catholics rely upon don’t believe that either. There is no universal agreement on this issue as Catholics like to claim.
Please clarify; which issue are you addressing?
I have read that over the years, too. I do not understand why.
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