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Only 1% of Catholic Democrats in Congress Pro-Life vs. 94% of Republican Catholics
Pewsitter ^ | September 28, 2016 | Andrew Parrish

Posted on 09/28/2016 2:00:17 PM PDT by NYer

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To: PTBAA

You are right. Supporting abortion is one of the planks in the Democrat platform.

You can’t be pro-choice and Catholic, period!


21 posted on 09/28/2016 2:44:11 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: fwdude
But there was once a time when there were actual conservative Democrats

Yes, I remember them. They just never appeared on my ballot. But even back in the '70s, the democRAT Party, as a party, was terminally corrupt. It just hadn't yet purged out all of the more-or-less conservatives.

22 posted on 09/28/2016 2:46:50 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: NYer

I wonder what percentage of U.S. Catholic priests and bishops are Democrats vs. Republicans.


23 posted on 09/28/2016 2:56:48 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: NYer; Impy; BlackElk; Clintonfatigued; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy
"Of the 86 Catholic Congressional Democrats, the sole representative with a pro-life voting record is Rep. Madeline Bordallo of Guam with 100%."

But Bordallo is a NON-VOTING U.S. Delegate !

24 posted on 09/28/2016 2:58:00 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: NYer

In other words, only 1% of Catholic Democrats in congress are really Catholic.


25 posted on 09/28/2016 3:18:10 PM PDT by American Guesser
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To: Amendment10

Trump needs to make clear that the federal government will not lift a finger against states that nullify the USSC’s abortion decisions. And he should proceed with legislation to strip abortion from the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

I’d like to see the USSC evicted from their grandiose temple, and moved into some WWII-era office space with buzzing fluorescent lights.


26 posted on 09/28/2016 3:29:57 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: miss marmelstein

Or by Archbishops Chaput, Cupich, etc., and Cardinals Wuerl, Dolan, O’Malley, etc.

Only about ten bishops in the U.S. don’t give Communion to pro-aborts.


27 posted on 09/28/2016 3:30:32 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: NYer

If these 99% of Catholic democrats are not really Catholics

What does that make the clergy who give them communion as well?

Catholics can do what they want but in my church if you are openly pro abortion and progressive

At a minimum you’ll be very lonely and may be asked to go

I’m ignorant specific Catholic history but did they once drum out the disobedient

And if so why haven’t they since Roe?

As for a democrat one could vote for?

There used to be some who were indeed pro life and pro America

I grew up around social conservative southern democrats who even though New Deal flawed they were sure prescient about culture war

Of course they’ve been vilified by everyone since

The GOPe is as lib on race as any good progressive

God love em


28 posted on 09/28/2016 3:42:57 PM PDT by wardaddy (free republic is an aging demographic)
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To: NYer

Why are Catholics who adhere to and promote anti Catholic doctrine not excommunicated?


29 posted on 09/28/2016 3:49:44 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: NorthMountain

Very true.


30 posted on 09/28/2016 3:55:45 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: ebb tide

A bishop I know estimates that about half of the bishops voted twice for Obama. I think even more will vote for Hillary, because they know that the $100+ million per year they get bringing Muslims into the country will dry up under Trump.

Look how formerly “pro-life” Chaput now can’t distinguish between a pro-abort fanatic and a pro-life candidate:

http://catholicphilly.com/2016/08/think-tank/archbishop-chaput-column/some-personal-thoughts-on-the-months-ahead/


31 posted on 09/28/2016 4:13:12 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: fwdude

Definitely.


32 posted on 09/28/2016 4:38:19 PM PDT by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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To: Axenolith

Because that would probably mean about 99% of the hierarchy including the pope?


33 posted on 09/28/2016 4:39:22 PM PDT by piusv (The Spirit of Christ hasn't refrained from using separated churches as means of salvation:VII heresy)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I want to say that the delegates vote in committee (unless it’s determinative?) but not on the floor.

Possibly they assembled her voting record by her statements on the issue.


34 posted on 09/28/2016 4:51:08 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Actually, the fact that the most pro-life voting Catholic Dem is non-voting makes total sense.


35 posted on 09/28/2016 7:52:44 PM PDT by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief (Domo Arigato, Mr. Rubio. Domo Arigato, Mr. Rubio.)
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To: NYer

Hmmm, Democrat Catholics cave to party pressure. To them, I guess, politics outweigh God in importance.


36 posted on 09/28/2016 8:30:47 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; Impy; fieldmarshaldj
>> Actually, the fact that the most pro-life voting Catholic Dem is non-voting makes total sense. <<

Yup. If she COULD vote, the other RATs would force her to vote pro-abortion when her vote was needed.

37 posted on 09/28/2016 9:40:24 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: scrabblehack; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; ...

They do vote in committee, and can be on conference committees and can introduce and co-sponsor bills. I’m not sure if their votes in committee are allowed to be determinitive or not.

In ‘93 the rats started letting them vote in the committee of the whole (if their votes made the difference a 2nd vote without them would be taken), GOP got rid of that, Dems put it back in ‘07, GOP got rid of it again.


38 posted on 09/29/2016 12:44:28 AM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery, Never Schumer, Never Pelosi)
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To: NYer

Thank you Kennedies, Cuomos, Pelosis and your ilk, for being Leftist Democrats first and Catholics third, fourth or fifth. Way to go, throwing your alleged faith into the garbage barrel!


39 posted on 09/29/2016 8:46:36 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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