I disagree with him that Catholics become liberal when they become more American, it is just the opposite.
Protestants vote conservative, pro-life, anti-homosexual, etc, the Catholic vote has always leaned left in America, always pushed it left, when Protestants were trying to stop Roosevelt, the Catholics were fighting for the left's agenda, it is the same under Clinton and Obama, heck, they almost got Al Gore in.
And we all know that Catholic immigration has turned America left and swallowed up entire states like California, and is killing off America forever to the point that liberalism takes it all, forever.
California became a fortress of the left because the traditional Christian Americans were replaced with Catholics.
It is bizarre that a left-wing democrat voting block keeps claiming that they are fixing the greatest nation ever created by curing it's liberalism.
California has approximately the same percentage Catholics as does Texas. The cause of California's leftward lurch is not the Catholic immigrants, it is the influx of non-Catholic fruits and nuts from the other 49 states since 1970.
Yes, and some of those fights were ones that many, many protestants, especially southern ones, so vigorously opposed (the voting rights act, non-segregated schools, and and the rest of the civil rights act, to illustrate a few). In hindsight, few would argue they weren’t the right thing to do.
The bottom line is that, politically, it’s hard to be a good Catholic if you’re too far at either end of the spectrum. The magisterium will never allow itself to be twisted to fit the temporal interests of partisan politics. I take comfort in that.