Those are not Catholic values. Longenecker nicely exposes a falsehood which is proposed in all of your posts; namely, that "Democrat" values are "Catholic" values. They're not. They're American values and those who fall away from Catholicism embrace them.
America is, and always has been, a liberal project.
That's its fundamental problem. The "pursuit of happiness" is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and is the major driving force behind the progressivist, liberal agenda which advances incrementally with time. At our core, we're liberal. We hold a liberal view of the human condition. People must be free of constraints in order to pursue their dreams, desires and to find worldly "happiness".
This philosophy was responsible for America's spectacular economic rise and brief (in historical terms) ascendancy in the world. Sadly, it's also responsible for its current decay, decadence and equally fast-approaching end as our search for "happiness" encompasses the destruction of marriage, unborn human life and the celebration of sodomy.
Longenecker is spot on.
Reading Sherry Weddell’s excellent Forming Intentional Disciples is making me think about the American church and what ails her. Can anybody deny that there is a sickness in the body ecclesia? When 50% of Catholics vote for a man who stoutly defends same sex marriage and partial birth abortion can we say that Catholics in America are okay?
I don’t think so.
Thus a series of posts on what’s killing Catholicism.
The problem isn’t the Protestant Christian vote, it is the Catholic Christian vote.
If Catholics voted like non-catholic Christians, the left would dry up.
The Catholics remaining unAmerican is what the left sees as the keys to the kingdom of owning the future, it is why they fight for Catholic immigration and gave us the 1965 Immigration Act.