Here's their standard:
Posted on 10/08/2010 7:08:12 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
Catholics form a relatively low percentage of participants the Tea Party movement, have similar views to most Americans on abortion, and overwhelmingly support the legal recognition of homosexual unions, according to a survey published by the Public Religion Research Institute.
The survey found that 14% of Tea Party participants are white Catholics, and another 4% are Latino Catholics-- a lower percentage total than the 22% of Americans who are Catholic.
The survey also found that 26% of white Catholics, and 18% of Latino Catholics, say they are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports abortion, while 38% of white Catholics, and 26% of Latino Catholics, are less likely to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. Overall, 30% of Americans are more likely, and 35% are less likely, to vote for a pro-abortion candidate.
In addition, the survey found that Catholics overwhelmingly support legal recognition of homosexual unions. 41% of white Catholics, and 46% of Latino Catholics, support same-sex marriage, while an additional 36% of white Catholics, and 22% of Latino Catholics, support same-sex civil unions. Only 19% of white Catholics, and 30% of Latino Catholics, are faithful to Catholic teaching, which opposes the legal recognition of homosexual unions. Overall, 37% of Americans support same-sex marriage, 27% support civil unions, and 33% oppose the legal recognition of homosexual unions. In 2006, only 26% of Americans supported same-sex marriage.
Probably the same “Catholics” who are pro-choice.
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.
Better - much better. Thanks.
Just as I thought — This story is written with secular information:
http://www.publicreligion.org/objects/uploads/fck/file/AVS%202010%20Report%20FINAL.pdf
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
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.
You’re right = it’s liberal lies sponsored by the FORD Foundation - a group slightly more radical left than George Soros....
Catholics in the U.S. are overwhelmingly CINO.
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...
I’m a Mormon who has worked alongside faithful Catholics in a pro-family, pro-life NGO. I find these poll results really suspect.
Thanks for your comment.
Nobody asked me...
-Theo
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.
So true.
That would expose the agenda.
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.
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.
So what. Being right about something is not a matter of majority rules.
Here's their standard:
Correct headline:
Catholics in the US overwhelmingly not actually Catholic.
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