Posted on 05/27/2015 12:26:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Take a look at this list of countries: Belgium, Canada, Spain, Argentina, Portugal, Brazil, France, Uruguay, Luxembourg and Ireland. Name two things that they have in common.
They dont share a continent, obviously. Or a language.
But in all of them, the Roman Catholic Church has more adherents, at least nominally, than any other religious denomination does.
And all of them belong to the vanguard of 20 nations that have decided to make same-sex marriage legal.
In fact, countries with a Catholic majority or plurality make up half of those where two men or two women can now wed or will soon be able to.
Ireland, obviously, is the freshest addition to the list. Its also, in some ways, the most remarkable one. Its the first country to approve same-sex marriage by a popular referendum. The margin wasnt even close. About 62 percent of voters embraced marriage equality.
And they did so despite a past of great fealty to the Catholic Churchs official teachings on, for example, contraception, which was outlawed in Ireland until 1980, and abortion, which remains illegal in most circumstances.
Irish voters nonetheless rejected the churchs formal opposition to same-sex marriage. This act of defiance was described, accurately, as an illustration of church leaders loosening grip on the country.
But in falling out of line with the Vatican, Irish people are actually falling in line with their Catholic counterparts in other Western countries, including the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sure it does, one either belongs to the Catholic denomination, or he doesn’t.
The Catholic church reports a certain number of Catholics in America and the world, are they lying?
Anecdotal surmising versus Ansels facts
If facts to refute him then put them up
Just saying “everyone you knew..,,,” isn’t fact
Here’s a fun chart of fact from Gallup ..,.a few paragraphs down
http://www.gallup.com/poll/11911/protestant-catholic-vote.aspx
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Huh? Of course they are all part of the Protestant vote, and Jimmy Carter never won the majority of the Protestant vote running for President.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter didn't win the Protestant vote, but he won a landslide majority of the Catholic vote.
They are especially not responsible for the total collapse of Christian values among Protestants, right? That's why they don't bother to try and get their own flocks in line and spend their time whining about Catholics rather than the Protestant black folks who vote solidly democrat. I mean, hey, why should Protestants try to keep their own sheep in the fold?
Did it surprise you that Gerald Ford won a landslide percentage of the Protestant vote, while Jimmy Carter won a landslide percentage of the Catholic vote?
Ford got about 55% of the Protestant vote.
Carter got about 55% of the Catholic vote.
They're not responsible for who wins or loses elections. They just sit home rather than vote than whine about the Catholic minority rather than putting their own house in order.
The Catholic vote is in most elections a near total wash with the number of Catholics who vote one way nearly equaling the number who vote the opposite but somehow, that's all that matters, the few percentage point difference in how a minority of the population votes. Forget the majority who are Protestant, their votes don't even get counted, right?
The premise that a few percent of a minority who in total constitute less than 20% of the population is responsible for who wins and loses elections is absurd on the face of it unless someone is so stupid the honestly believe the other 80% of the people who vote don't have their votes counted.
Now, the 95% plus of Protestant black folks who vote democrat, that's another matter, one the Protestant folks carefully avoid dealing with and I've never heard of any major Protestant effort to remove that huge beam sticking out of the national Protestant eye socket. Even evangelizing fellow Protestant Methodists would be a start, but nope, those Methodists and their queer pastors marrying queers to one another don't matter because . . .
. . . . . we're supposed to all agree that Protestants aren't responsible for anything just because they're the overwhelming majority of votes cast in all national election.
As sad as the strong delusion of Protestantism has become, in many ways it's hilarious.
The blacks who are Protestants are counted as part of the Protestant vote, and they shifted from being an always GOP vote, to joining the Catholics in voting democrat, in 1936.
But the total of the Protestant vote, has only gone democrat 3 times, 1932, 1936, and 1964.
But we aren’t importing millions of black Protestants, while the democrats did write the immigration laws to import millions of Catholic and non-Protestant voters to support their left wing agenda.
What is it that you are arguing about? Do you like how Catholics vote? Do you support it, want more of it? Why all this denial of how the Catholic denomination votes?
By the way, not even quite 75% of blacks are Protestant, and the vast majority of those belong to black denominations.
Blacks who are Protestant are counted as a part of the “Protestant” total, while Catholics, all belong to one denomination, and all under the control of their European headquarters.
So one category is diluted with denominations as diverse as the Anglicans, and the Southern Baptists, and whatever Rev. Wright was, the Catholic voters are measured by their own, specific, single, denomination.
Thanks for standing up for the faith. Regards back, FRiend.
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