Obama won Catholic vote, regular churchgoers chose Romney

Catholic Culture ^ | November 7, 2012 | Diogenes

[NYer]

President Barack Obama won a slim majority of votes from self-identified Catholics, according to exit polls conduct by CNN.

The polls shows that 50% of voters who identified themselves as Catholics voted for Obama, and 48% for Republican nominee Mitt Romney. The CNN poll did not distinguish between active and lapsed Catholics.

Protestant voters swung heavily toward Romney, the CNN polls showed, with 57% choosing the Republican and only 42% voting to re-elect Obama. The initial reports on the CNN exit polls did not distinguish among the different Protestant denominations.

Among voters who said they had no religious affiliation, Obama was the overwhelming favorite, with a commanding 70-26% edge.

The CNN exit polls showed a clear preference for Romney (59- 39%) among voters who attended church services weekly, and an even more pronounced tilt toward Obama (62-34%) among those who never attended services.

[Salvation]

Do you know what happens to you when you speak ill of the Bishops?

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Love God

Love your neighbor as yourself.

[Salvation]

It’s the Hispanic Catholics that need the evangelization.

[Salvation]

What about the Black Protestants -- what are you going to do about them?

8 out of 10 white Protestants voted for Romney...95% of black Protestants voted for Obama...

6 out of 10 White Catholics voted for Romney...75% of Mexican Catholics voted for Obama...

[Salvation]

The ymca and ywca are not really Christian organizations. They both support abortion. I have heard it with my own ears at a ywca

[Verginius Rufus]

Do you know what happens to you when you speak ill of the Bishops?

No, I don't...but I'm guessing your answer is "you'll go to hell."

I didn't know there was a rule against criticizing bishops...some of them certainly have deserved it (Weakland, for one). But I don't know that speculating that some of them voted for the Democrats is "speaking ill" of them--they are probably proud of themselves. I'd bet dollars to donuts that my bishop voted for Obama, judging from the statement he put in the diocesan newspaper.

[Salvation]

A proud Christian is surely a contradiction in terms. A Christian is a follower of Christ whose humility can never be equaled. He was God as well as man.