Well sure, but it you take out all the CINOs and members of liberal Catholic Churches, the democrats have done very poorly in Catholic circles for years. Faithful Catholics have been voting Republican for several elections now. (Of course, that never stops some Protestants on this forum from squawking about how Catholics supposedly all support Democrats, etc.)Very interesting. I wouldn't have guessed Kerry did that well among Protestants.If you take out all the Protestants In Name Only and members of the liberal denominations, Kerry probably did very poorly.
The fact of the matter is both Catholics and Protestants have PINOs and CINOs. The interesting thing here is that, for the first time to my knowledge, Catholics as a group were more Republican than Protestants. I don’t think that’s ever happened before. It has very interesting implications for future elections. Electoral strategies will be shifting a bit to deal with this.
I think it also says something about how the Churches are changing internally right now, but that is better measured elsewhere.
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Agreed.
I've noticed Catholic priests have been speaking up far more, and I would assume this is rightfully having a positive effect on their congregations. Priests, pastors, ministers, etcc..have a duty to their congregations and when they fail their congregations suffer. There seems to have been a reversel in the Catholic Church of late.
Meanwhile some traditional protestant denominations have been liberalizing their accepted doctrine and members and this has the fact of harming their congregants, or chasing them away.
I was formally a protestant but attend a non denominational Church now. It doesn't matter what church one attends, when they begin to deviate from traditional interpretation of scripture it leads to new allignments elsewhere. Most genuine Christians are not going to put up with a PC religion.