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On Same-Sex Marriage, Catholics Are Leading the Way in Legalization
New York Times ^ | 05/27/2015 | Frank Bruni

Posted on 05/27/2015 12:26:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: FourtySeven

Sure it does, one either belongs to the Catholic denomination, or he doesn’t.

The Catholic church reports a certain number of Catholics in America and the world, are they lying?


121 posted on 05/28/2015 11:36:09 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Rashputin; ansel12

Anecdotal surmising versus Ansels facts

If facts to refute him then put them up

Just saying “everyone you knew..,,,” isn’t fact

Here’s a fun chart of fact from Gallup ..,.a few paragraphs down

http://www.gallup.com/poll/11911/protestant-catholic-vote.aspx

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122 posted on 05/28/2015 11:49:22 AM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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To: Rashputin
Nope, all those Southern Baptists, Independent Baptists, Evangelicals, Methodists, and a horde of other groups who claim to be Protestant are really not Protestants. They're, well, not-Protestants, right?

Huh? Of course they are all part of the Protestant vote, and Jimmy Carter never won the majority of the Protestant vote running for President.

In 1976, Jimmy Carter didn't win the Protestant vote, but he won a landslide majority of the Catholic vote.

123 posted on 05/28/2015 11:50:33 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12
I understand, the Protestant majority, a majority that absolutely overwhelms the Catholic minority, is never responsible for anything.

They are especially not responsible for the total collapse of Christian values among Protestants, right? That's why they don't bother to try and get their own flocks in line and spend their time whining about Catholics rather than the Protestant black folks who vote solidly democrat. I mean, hey, why should Protestants try to keep their own sheep in the fold?

124 posted on 05/28/2015 11:57:21 AM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin

Did it surprise you that Gerald Ford won a landslide percentage of the Protestant vote, while Jimmy Carter won a landslide percentage of the Catholic vote?

Ford got about 55% of the Protestant vote.

Carter got about 55% of the Catholic vote.


125 posted on 05/28/2015 12:08:34 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12
Having established beyond a shadow of a doubt that Protestants who make up the overwhelming majority in this country aren't responsible for anything, it doesn't matter.

They're not responsible for who wins or loses elections. They just sit home rather than vote than whine about the Catholic minority rather than putting their own house in order.

The Catholic vote is in most elections a near total wash with the number of Catholics who vote one way nearly equaling the number who vote the opposite but somehow, that's all that matters, the few percentage point difference in how a minority of the population votes. Forget the majority who are Protestant, their votes don't even get counted, right?

The premise that a few percent of a minority who in total constitute less than 20% of the population is responsible for who wins and loses elections is absurd on the face of it unless someone is so stupid the honestly believe the other 80% of the people who vote don't have their votes counted.

Now, the 95% plus of Protestant black folks who vote democrat, that's another matter, one the Protestant folks carefully avoid dealing with and I've never heard of any major Protestant effort to remove that huge beam sticking out of the national Protestant eye socket. Even evangelizing fellow Protestant Methodists would be a start, but nope, those Methodists and their queer pastors marrying queers to one another don't matter because . . .
. . . . . we're supposed to all agree that Protestants aren't responsible for anything just because they're the overwhelming majority of votes cast in all national election.

As sad as the strong delusion of Protestantism has become, in many ways it's hilarious.

126 posted on 05/28/2015 1:35:49 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)
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To: Rashputin

The blacks who are Protestants are counted as part of the Protestant vote, and they shifted from being an always GOP vote, to joining the Catholics in voting democrat, in 1936.

But the total of the Protestant vote, has only gone democrat 3 times, 1932, 1936, and 1964.

But we aren’t importing millions of black Protestants, while the democrats did write the immigration laws to import millions of Catholic and non-Protestant voters to support their left wing agenda.

What is it that you are arguing about? Do you like how Catholics vote? Do you support it, want more of it? Why all this denial of how the Catholic denomination votes?


127 posted on 05/28/2015 1:52:00 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Rashputin

By the way, not even quite 75% of blacks are Protestant, and the vast majority of those belong to black denominations.

Blacks who are Protestant are counted as a part of the “Protestant” total, while Catholics, all belong to one denomination, and all under the control of their European headquarters.

So one category is diluted with denominations as diverse as the Anglicans, and the Southern Baptists, and whatever Rev. Wright was, the Catholic voters are measured by their own, specific, single, denomination.


128 posted on 05/28/2015 2:01:42 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Rashputin

Thanks for standing up for the faith. Regards back, FRiend.


129 posted on 05/28/2015 2:05:23 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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