Countries where sodomite marriage is legal -- total of 22 countries -- or parts of countries:
| Country | % Catholic | Legalized Year |
| Argentina | 92% (20% practicing) | 2010 |
| Belgium | 75% | 2003 |
| Brazil | 64.6% | 2013 |
| Canada | 38.8% | 2005 |
| Denmark | <1% | 2012 |
| Finland | <1% | 2015 |
| France | ~51% (official polls not taken) |
2013 |
| Iceland | 3.5% | 2010 |
| Ireland | 84.7% | 2015 |
| Luxembourg | 87% | 2014 |
| Mexico | 82.7% | 2009 - 2014 (by state) |
| Netherlands | 28% | 2001 |
| New Zealand | 11.6% | 2013 |
| Norway | 1.8% | 2008 |
| Portugal | 81% | 2010 |
| Slovenia | 57.8% | 2015 |
| South Africa | 7.1% | 2006 |
| Spain | 94% | 2005 |
| Sweden | <1% | 2009 |
| United Kingdom | 8.6% | 2012 England & Wales 2012 Scotland not legal Northern Ireland |
| United States | 23.9% | (varying depending upon state...starting in 2008 moving forward) |
| Uruguay | 47.1% | 2013 |
So 11 out of the 22 countries where it's legal are not majority Catholic (irrespective of how many people are actually "practicing" Catholics or "cultural" Catholics). Doesn't sound like a wide majority (as the author would have us believe).
Bottom line is that it's not quite as simple as the author attempts to make it...when you actually look at the facts. It's disgusting that any Catholic country...or that any Catholic...would support such a perversion.
But we ought to have our facts straight here.
(BTW sources for data: legalization dates and countries where legal are from Wikipedia; % Catholic are from CIA World Fact Book)
No fare!
FEELZ BEFORE REALZ!
The article wasn’t about countries that are majority Catholic, it was about countries in which the Catholic denomination is the largest denomination.
“But in all of them, the Roman Catholic Church has more adherents, at least nominally, than any other religious denomination does.”
“It’s the first country to approve same-sex marriage by a popular referendum. The margin wasn’t even close. About 62 percent of voters embraced marriage equality.”
“Catholics in the United States appear to be more, not less, progressive about gay rights than Americans in general are. Catholics in the United States appear to be more, not less, progressive about gay rights than Americans in general are. In an especially ambitious survey conducted over the course of 2014 by the Public Religion Research Institute, about 60 percent of Americans who called themselves Catholic said that they approved of same-sex marriage, versus about 30 percent who didn’t. The spread among all respondents was 54 to 38”
“But seldom does anyone point out that this explanation puts these men in the minority, not majority, of Catholics in the United States. Their stances win them more political favor among Baptists than among Catholics.”