Posted on 02/07/2012 11:40:24 AM PST by wmfights
•A majority (55%) of Americans agree that “employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception and birth control at no cost.” Four-in-ten (40%) disagree with this requirement.
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•Roughly 6-in-10 Catholics (58%) believe that employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception.
•Among Catholic voters, support for this requirement is slightly lower at 52%.
•Only half (50%) of white Catholics support this requirement, compared to 47% who oppose it.
•Among other religious Americans, 61% of religiously unaffiliated Americans believe that employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception, compared to only half (50%) of white mainline Protestants and less than 4-in-10 (38%) white evangelical Protestants.
(Excerpt) Read more at publicreligion.org ...
The “Left Wing” of the Catholic Church is more properly called the “Apostate Wing”.
No, don't do that. There are some people who only get rides on those major holidays and some who are on the way "back in". You have to know more about their circumstances and intent to know if they are "CINO".
Do whatever the hell you want, JUST DO NOT MAKE YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS PAY FOR IT.
Oh somewhere there is a ‘thread’ about Castro receiving ‘grace’.... What is up is down, what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right!!!!!!
Meant “Holy days”, not holidays, but same derivation anyway lol.
This just means no one understands the gravity of the issue, a circumstance that always seems to advantage liberals. It is religious freedom under the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. Whether a Catholic supports birth control or not is hardly the issue. The issue is an institutional religious belief being challenged by the power of the state without regard to the Constitutional right that prohibits them from doing so. I would hope any citizen could understand that without reference to the bogus issue of “women’s health” etc.
Good - I hope Obama actually believes that keeping this policy in place will not hurt his reelection.
“...and how he will be elected again.”
His platform will include:
1. Extended Unemployment benefits
2. Student Loan Forgiveness
3. Mortgage Loan Forgiveness
He will skid into election week having spent every last penny of the latest debt ceiling increase, and daring Republicans to shut down the government.
Their CEO writes a blog for Washington Post:
Regardless of what they are called they are in charge and they are pushing their commie 'red' agenda over all of US. Every one of these leftist would be given communion before I ever would. And the pomp and circumstance funerals they give to their 'red' members is a sight to behold.
No surprise, people (women)- Catholic or not) lining up to get some "Obama Stash" for !
That's why we are a Republic NOT a Democracy, where the majority lines their pockets, barns, etc. with stuff from the minority.
Right now in America, taxpayers are not merely virtual slaves but actual slaves to those who get our hard-earned money while they do absolutely nothing.....but vote for "leaders" who make new laws and rules to give themselves and their voters more - paid for by US!
Agreed. Nothing trumps the term “Free”(meaning paid for by another) in present day America.
Hilarity. I guess the poll indicates what parts of Catholicism the public can vote to keep, and which parts are ignored or outlawed. Here are some more poll questions for them:
1) That Jesus guy. Keep or find someone new, like Obama?
2) The Pope, Papal supremacy and infallibility. Kind of outdated concept. How about electing Obama the new Pope?
3) Robes and hats. How about priests, bishops, etc. wearing more modern clothing, like suits and ties, or tie dyed t-shirts and blue jeans?
4) The Bible is totally homophobic and male-centric. How about replacing it with something more relevant, like Obama’s book, “The Audacity of Hope”, or Al Gore’s book, “An Inconvenient Truth” (25th revised edition)?
5) Catholics in Name Only feel unwelcome in the church that demands unfair things like belief in God and all that, so how about renaming it “The Church of Soros”? “Maloch?”
Because of course doctrine on faith and morals should be determined by majority vote rather than divine revelation...
Wait a minute.......we don't!! That's it!!
Joking aside, there is a huge irony which underlies this furore and one has to say that God does indeed have a sense of humor. The roots of this problem go back over four decades to the papal encyclical linked above. Humanae Vitae was, in general, received with about as much enthusiasm as a tax assessment by the Church. This included bishops, priests and laity. Some simply ignored it. Others actively denounced it and in the 4+ decades since its publication, it has been quietly left to gather dust. It was also the trigger for the explosion of dissent and revolt which began to erupt openly in the Church and which still today, is a problem.
How ironic then, that the club which is now being used to beat the Church is the very same issue which the hierarchy and laity have ignored and neglected for so long. The chickens have come home to roost! The statistics quoted in this survey are entirely unsurprising and are the completely predictable fruit of the pathetic treatment which was meted out to Humanae Vitae.
Now let's just take a little excerpt from this papal encyclical.....
"Finally, careful consideration should be given to the danger of this power passing into the hands of those public authorities who care little for the precepts of the moral law. Who will blame a government which in its attempt to resolve the problems affecting an entire country resorts to the same measures as are regarded as lawful by married people in the solution of a particular family difficulty? Who will prevent public authorities from favoring those contraceptive methods which they consider more effective? Should they regard this as necessary, they may even impose their use on everyone.
That was written over 40 years ago. The Pope was indeed right. Isn't this what is now happening?
There is no question that the Church has contributed to its own misfortune on this issue, through its absolutely lousy preaching of the message of life contained in Humanae Vitae and the apathetic attitude of a large number who still self-identify as Catholic is testament to this. As recent events have showed us, this issue will not go away and through God's mysterious Providence, it is now coming back to bite us.
At the little Catholic school where my children used to go there are many pro-abortion moms. A friend of mine regularly had arguments with them about it. Good friends of ours are social liberal/socialists - sitting in church every week.
Obama is trying to drive a wedge in the church and he will succeed. Pastor vs female parishioner with the men-folk standing on the sidelines not wanting to take a leadership role in their own families.
Obama knows the electorate better than the Bishops know their flock. If nothing else it will force people to take a stand.
And consider that maybe Obama and his tricksters are using this issue to divert attention away from something else?
The survey was designed and conducted by Public Religion Research Institute. Results of the survey were based on bilingual (Spanish and English) RDD telephone interviews conducted between February 1, 2012 and February 5, 2012 by professional interviewers under the direction of Social Science Research Solutions (SSRS). Interviews were conducted among a random sample of 1,009 adults 18 years of age or older in the continental United States (304 respondents were interviewed on a cell phone).
The final sample was weighted to five different parameters—age, sex, geographic region, education and telephone usage(1)— to ensure reliable and accurate representation of the total adult population.
The margin of error for the survey is +/- 3.5 percentage points at the 95% level of confidence. In addition to sampling error, surveys may also be subject to error or bias due to question wording, context and order effects.
(emphasis added)
Thanks for the info.
It seems that the %'s fall in line with how people voted the last time. It will be noteworthy to see if these %'s change if the RC hierarchy voices disapproval of obama.
Maybe Pelosi based her comment,that she was standing with Catholics on this issue,on this survey. She’s such a hypocrite.
A look at the PRRI Board of Directors is very telling.
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