[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

OOPS!

Here were the first two (background) sentences of the article....

André Blais is president of the Canadian Political Science Association and professor of political science at the University of Montreal. His research is supported by the Canada Research Chair and he’s a friend of Liberal cabinet minister Stephane Dion. If anybody should know how Canadian politics works and why, it ought to be Blais.

But the accomplished professor has been left scratching his head by the behaviour of English Canadian Catholics during elections.

[Brilliant]

possibly because they are French.

[SteveMcKing]

Abstractly, conservatives foster liberal children. Hippies spent the peace dividend (wasted it, in my view) of their fathers. Parents work their whole lives, and their spoiled kids go off to act like animals for four years at college. Actually five years is more common these days...

The Church being this great institution, its members are a natural product of conservatism - rebellious teenagers, in a sense, they act and vote liberal purely out of spite.

And yet their "parents" - the church leadership - still love and support them, always rejoicing their return. Go figure.

[Duke Wayne]

The fact that one says he or she is Catholic is not a barometer for voting Conservative or liberal.

To me being Catholic means following church teaching. The Catholic church goes off doctrine. Therefore one cannot pick and chose in the Catholic faith. That said I believe many who call themselves Catholic are only in name, (Teddy Kennedy, Dick Durban, John Kerry,) the list goes on and on.

It is indeed a shame that a church that points out the fact that abortion is wrong, same sex marriage, as well as a whole host of things that are immoral and wrong in Gods eyes has such a bad time of keeping it members on the Right side of voting.

All I can say is people want to pick and choose when voting and have little regard for the outcome of there vote. Life means little to some. When a snail darter is worth more than a child one needs to ask themselves what in the hell is going on here.

God help us all.

[kenth]

More Canadian than Catholic.

[Unam Sanctam]

I call it the Kennedy effect -- many Catholics simply view their faith as a cultural identity, but don't really care what it teaches about faith and morals.

[Ciexyz]

btt

[Heartofsong83]

While I could understand the sense in Catholics voting for the Liberals who voted against gay marriage and are pro-life and pro-family (the Paul Szabos, the Tom Wappels, the Dan McTeagues, etc.), other than that, this is a mystery. That should be one of the first groups targetted by the Conservatives - if we go even with the Liberals among Catholics, that would translate into a majority government.

All so-called "Catholics" who voted for gay marriage should be strongly targetted for defeat.