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Catholics in US overwhelmingly support homosexual unions
Catholic Culture ^ | October 08, 2010

Posted on 10/08/2010 7:08:12 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

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To: Alex Murphy

Probably the same “Catholics” who are pro-choice.


21 posted on 10/08/2010 8:02:42 AM PDT by RebelTXRose
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To: Alex Murphy

You cit Catholic Culture but you failed to mention an author. I can’t think of one author on Catholic Culture who would have such a headline — is it yours?

Direct link please.


22 posted on 10/08/2010 8:09:08 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: WestwardHo
Homosexual priests of the past did their job well... endlessly preaching ‘forgiveness’ without repentance.

Better - much better. Thanks.

23 posted on 10/08/2010 8:13:35 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal violence against Tea Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ)
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To: Alex Murphy

Just as I thought — This story is written with secular information:

http://www.publicreligion.org/objects/uploads/fck/file/AVS%202010%20Report%20FINAL.pdf


24 posted on 10/08/2010 8:21:17 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: narses

But from the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith?

Pope Benedict woud never have come to this conclusion!

http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=4747


25 posted on 10/08/2010 8:23:30 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Alex Murphy
Marriage is a sacrament. There are seven sacraments in the Church: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.

Before the Catholic Church there was no marriage. Men took wives.

matrimony, is a "covenant by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses

No amount of rationalization, justification or legalization will change that.

26 posted on 10/08/2010 8:23:38 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: Salvation

You’re right = it’s liberal lies sponsored by the FORD Foundation - a group slightly more radical left than George Soros....


27 posted on 10/08/2010 8:31:16 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal violence against Tea Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ)
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To: Alex Murphy

Catholics in the U.S. are overwhelmingly CINO.


28 posted on 10/08/2010 8:31:50 AM PDT by MayfairFly ("Your total ignorance of that which you profess to teach merits the death penalty.")
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To: Alex Murphy

Did you know this stuff was put out with the benefit of the Ford Foundation? PLEASE include that information in your post... It’s like running something put out by George Soros without a disclaimer...


29 posted on 10/08/2010 8:33:43 AM PDT by GOPJ (Liberal violence against Tea Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFeUhSlHiUQ)
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To: Alex Murphy

I’m a Mormon who has worked alongside faithful Catholics in a pro-family, pro-life NGO. I find these poll results really suspect.


30 posted on 10/08/2010 8:36:24 AM PDT by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer

Thanks for your comment.


31 posted on 10/08/2010 8:38:09 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Alex Murphy

Nobody asked me...

-Theo


32 posted on 10/08/2010 8:40:40 AM PDT by TeĆ³filo (Visit Vivificat! - http://www.vivificat.org - A Catholic Blog of News, Commentary and Opinion)
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To: narses

First of all the poll used as source material is about the Tea Party movement. Surveyed were 3013 people over 18, 600 of whom were on cell phones. Where are they coming up with the Catholic numbers for the story? It’s not in the PDF file. I know some people enjoy trolling for this sort of statistic. Like the ones who harp that 56% of Catholics voted for Obama and 46% of Protestants voted for McCain. It is misleading.

A few years back there was a survey that said Catholics overwhelmingly thought that abortion was okay. When you got to the end of the hit piece, I mean article it said only 229 Catholics were polled. Agenda? It’s hard to take this seriously even though the same people will jump on the band wagon.


33 posted on 10/08/2010 8:40:50 AM PDT by Jaded (I realized that after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F)
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To: Paved Paradise

So true.


34 posted on 10/08/2010 8:47:06 AM PDT by Jaded (I realized that after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F)
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To: GOPJ

That would expose the agenda.


35 posted on 10/08/2010 8:49:11 AM PDT by Jaded (I realized that after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says W T F)
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To: Alex Murphy

Well, as others have said, this is NOT the position of the Church. There are a fair number of ignorant or dissident Catholics around, because of the dismal failure of the bishops to keep a better watch over the catechists over the past forty years or so.

But I am also suspicious of this poll and the clearly leftist organization that ran it. What question did they actually ask? Who did they ask. How much did they fudge the numbers?

For instance, as a Catholic, I think homosexual unions (not marriages) are wrong. But I’m not going to go around telling my homosexual friends that. I don’t approve of their relationships, and I won’t tell them that I approve of them, but I don’t think it would be useful to attack them on those grounds. Converting anyone in that sort of way is extremely unlikely.

I doubt very much, to conclude, whether these pollsters would even begin to understand the concept of “hate the sin but love the sinner.” So I doubt whether this poll is anywhere near meaningful.


36 posted on 10/08/2010 8:52:24 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: narses

So Catholics can be Catholic and not believe Catholic teaching?

Why doesn’t the RCC excercise some good ol’ church discipline if these “adherents” are so out of line?

Oh, that’s right. Their bishops an priests agree with them.


37 posted on 10/08/2010 9:08:24 AM PDT by fwdude (Anita Bryant was right.)
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To: Alex Murphy

So what. Being right about something is not a matter of majority rules.


38 posted on 10/08/2010 9:24:22 AM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: FarmerW
I always wonder how they define Catholic.

Here's their standard:


39 posted on 10/08/2010 9:25:05 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Correct headline:

Catholics in the US overwhelmingly not actually Catholic.


40 posted on 10/08/2010 9:27:33 AM PDT by Truthsearcher
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