[cowtowney]

What on earth are you talking about! You said "About 50% of all American Catholics don't really care what the Pope thinks about Jesus or morality."

You responded by referencing something about Catholics are changing political parties or some such.

Wow. Care to reference your original quote?

[Preachin']

You responded by referencing something about Catholics are changing political parties or some such. You didn't read it all. The real point is that they still are referred to as swing voters. Why on earth have Catholics allowed this to happen?

Here is another good source:

http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/weber-catholic-vote.htm

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A majority voted Republican in 1972, 1980, 1984 and 1988. But as noted above, somehow there was never the spark to unite kindred spirits. In 1992 and 1996 a majority of Catholics voted Democratic. Even so, as the 2000 election shows, it has been a fragile and uncertain homecoming. Democrats dared not nominate a pro-life Catholic as a vice-presidential candidate for fear of alienating their feminist constituents, nor could they nominate a pro-choice Catholic for fear of conflict with Catholic bishops.

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The voting record for Catholic women is even more remarkable, showing both a religious gap and a gender gap. In 1992, 44 percent of Catholic women voted for Clinton, while 39 percent of Protestant women voted the same way. In 1996, 59 percent of Catholic women supported Clinton, while only 47 percent of Protestant women did so.

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A solid majority of Catholics are economic liberals: pro-safety net, pro-progressive taxation, pro-labor unions, pro-foreign aid, pro-environmental protection and pro-government regulation of industry and consumer products—all traditional Democratic themes.

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Nor can politicians discover the key to the Catholic vote by looking to church teachings. Catholics follow church doctrine only selectively, when they know it at all. Catholics use birth control and have abortions at the same rate as the rest of the country, are quite tolerant of gays but are in favor of the death penalty and nuclear weapons. As a result, Republicans and Democrats make symbolic gestures and appeal to that part of the Catholic ethos they think will bring them a majority of votes. But both political parties have serious difficulties with Catholics.

...................................................... Some of the best people I've ever met are Catholics, and that should surprise no one. But, the truth is, a lot of them go around waving the "The Church" banner, and don't really support biblical or Papal directive.

I know a great handful of Catholics, and well over 50% of them were avid Clinton supporters. They let themselves be blinded by the pro-labor, women, children and the elderly campaign of Bill Clinton.

That is so lame.

As I mentioned, Catholics are moving to the right, but it's only been about 1970 years or so since the resurrection. What took them so long?

I have these same issues with Protestants, but I am terribly sure that the vast majority of white "Protestants" vote for the pro-life candidate every single time. This is putting your money where your mouth is.