Posted on 01/22/2012 12:37:06 PM PST by narses
I think the point is that the left dislikes Christianity, and sees it as the enemy, but for all the anti-Catholic stuff from the left, they also find more comfort with Catholics, interact more with and seek out Catholic leadership, confer with and seek out opinions from them, and often portray them positively and powerfully in news, media, and movies.
Evangelicals are merely mocked, marginalized, and attacked by the media.
Look at every story about Mormonism and Christianity, the media always reports it as ‘some Evangelicals do not consider Mormons Christians’ hinting that it is a backwards, fundamentalist, absurdity, you never see Catholics mentioned in that context.
**Mr. Gingrich finished his comments by criticizing the media for not covering “anti-Christian bigotry.”**
And the anti-Catholic bigotry here on FR is also given notice. Thank you, Candidate Gingrich!
Why does such anti-Catholic bigotry even exist?
I don’t disagree with you when you say the left and Media hates Evangelicals and Southern Baptists.
The left is capable of holding multiple prejudices and hating multiple groups of people at once. It’s what the left does.
Funny thing is I see a lot of anti-Catholic threads here and very seldom media sourced anti-evangelical threads.
Go figure that one out.
Newt Gingrich Attacks Fashionable Anti-Catholic Bigotry
Newt Gingrich: What Kind of Catholic Is He? [Born Lutheran, Turned Baptist, Now Catholic]
Newt Gingrich: America’s Next Catholic President?
Clemson Palmetto Poll finds Gingrich (38%) momentum growing, most S.C. GOP voters still uncommitted
Gingrich Threatens GOP's Chance to Nab Independents
The Evangelical Case for Newt Gingrich
Gingrich Represents New Political Era for Catholics
Gingrich Represents New Political Era for Catholics [ecumenical}
Newt Gingrich on Catholicism and JPII
Why Newt Gingrich Converted to Catholicism
Exclusive: Newt Gingrich Opens Up on Catholic Conversion and Embracing 'Overt Christianity'
Newt Gingrich on his conversion to Catholicism
Gingrich Keeps Quiet on Catholic Conversion (received into Church over the past weekend)
Exclusive: Newt Gingrich conversion details; plans release of JP2 documentary
Gingrich to Become Catholic During Easter Season
The Newt Evangelization: Gingrich to become Catholic
Search for threads related to media accusations of anti-Mormon bigotry for example.
It is a matter of degree, Evangelicals are the truly hated by the left, for them, there is never a break in the attacks.
Even in the their own GOP primary, the media saturates us with tales that the Evangelicals will hurt Romney, and they don’t mean that to be positive.
The left will interact positively with liberals and negatively with conservatives. It will portray conservative Catholics poorly and conservative Protestants (Evangelicals) poorly. It will interact with liberal Catholics and liberal Protestants (such as Episcopalians) positively.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you that the left portrays Evangelicals worse than Catholics. That’s because Evangelicals are essentially conservative Protestants. but, while Catholics should be all conservative, there are still many liberals who identify as Catholic.
If all Catholics actually lived their faith and liberals were intelligent enough to notice, they would probably be hated worse than Evangelicals. While liberals like to mock how many Evangelicals hold the view of creationism, they would have an absolute field day with the Catholic belief in the Eucharist and the Catholic Church’s rejection of contraception.
They know that Evangelicals are their polar opposites in politics and in the voting booth.
It would be interesting to see the action figure/hero/leading man/woman reveal that he grew up in, and still retains ties to America’s second largest church, instead of him always going into a Catholic church, but the left has zero use for the second largest church which they see as right-wing and conservatively Christian.
Unscientific exit polls showed Bush losing to both Gore and Kerry. Exit polls are crutches for the illiterate.
Thanks for posting, narses.
s, w...main article´s lower part...´the conversion of Gingrich to the Faith´ I thought interesting & thought you might too.
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