are the Bishops poorly represented legally?Do the Bishops put’other’ issues ahead of abortion and euthanasia?Have the Bishops been linked to the Democratic Party for too long?
Yes on all; whether they are working on a deal with Obama I don't know, but that deal better have a solid conscious objector protection for any Catholic, and not just for some institutions.
My point in all this is that first, the Evangelical Protestants are welcome with their conservatism, but in a majority-Protestant country they did a horrible job in 20c. seeing the moral disintegration that occurred. Second, it is not the bishops' job to formulate civil laws. If the US electorate wants to have a socialized medicine, it is not the job of the bishops to teach against that. Their job is to protect against laws that violate human conscience, not against stupid laws.
My wife and I have included the defeat of Obama in our daily rosary for many months.
Our prayer is for the preservation of American freedom and freedom of religion in particular. Obama is a symptom, not the cause of our peril. It is obvious, I think that Romney, should he win, will be only a marginal improvement over Obama, and least of all an improvement on social issues, where it really matters. This is why it is important to defeat not just Obama, but the left-wing mentality in our neighbor.
Protestants only voted democrat three times in history, 1932, 1936, and 1964.
Protestants were not even voting for Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944, Catholics were always not only voting democrat but they were pushing for unions, socialism, and were strongly involved in radical leftism as this thread topic proves, and as the Catholic voices on this thread keep defending and supporting over and over, and this is at FREEREPUBLIC!!
Polls show this, that even "conservative" Catholics tend to lean liberal when compared to real conservatives and the proof is this thread at a conservative site.