The problem is that this is liberal Democrat party politics and Catholics vote accordingly, if we can ever get the Catholics to stop supporting these liberal policies then conservatives win.
It may not bother you, but it bothers those of us that don't like living under liberal Democrat government.
I am not glad that Obama is President.
Of course it bothers me. But unfortunately the bishops don’t listen to me.
If you look at history, virtually all of the Catholics in America were Democrats in the early days, because most of them were Irish or Italian or Polish or other ethnic minorities, and most were discriminated against by the WASP establishment. Most of them were working class, and many belonged to unions.
But the Dem party started to change, and became more interested in things like abortion than in the rights of workers in any meaningful sense. Gradually, Catholics began to go over to the Republican side after the passage of Roe v. Wade. From being maybe 90% Dems, Catholics gradually shifted to something like 50-50. And studies show that those Catholics who go to Mass regularly are much more likely to vote pro-life, i.e. Republican.
The presence of dissenters in the Church after Vatican 2 complicated matters. But on the whole, Catholics are more and more disenchanted with the Democrats.
McCain was a lousy candidate, having insulted both Catholics and Evangelicals in 2000 and then again in 2008. And Obama managed to pull the wool over a lot of people’s eyes. Still, he only got a marginal majority of the Catholic vote, largely because McCain refused to attack him on the abortion business, and the press covered it up.
It would be a big mistake to write off either Evangelicals OR Catholics. Conservatives need both in order to win. And we can hope to continue educating Catholics on what the Dem party now stands for, and thus to continue moving them over toward the conservative side where, frankly, they belong.