Posted on 10/08/2016 5:02:00 AM PDT by daniel1212
More than half of all U.S. Catholics (52 percent) would cast a vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton if the election were held today, compared to just 32 percent for Republican Donald J. Trump...
More than three in four (76 percent) non-white and Hispanic Catholics would pick Clinton, with 13 percent choosing Trump.
Among white non-Hispanic Catholics, Clinton holds a much smaller lead, 44 percent to 41 percent....
Six in 10 (62 percent) white evangelicals say they would vote for Trump today, while 47 percent of white mainline Protestants pick Trump.
That comes from a new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute, whose findings mirror a similar poll conducted earlier this summer by the Pew Research Center.
Trump’s trouble with Catholic voters was foreshadowed during the primary season, when a group of reliably conservative Catholics urged their fellow believers in the Republican Party to resist Trump, even after he had all but sewn up the nomination.
Those concerns were renewed this week when The Hill reported on comments made by the newly tapped C.E.O of the Trump campaign, Stephen Bannon. The former head of the conservative website Breitbart News had accused the Catholic Church of supporting immigration reform only to boost its own membership.
“I understand why Catholics want as many Hispanics in this country as possible, because the church is dying in this country, right? If it was not for the Hispanics,” he said in March during a radio interview with Princeton University Professor Robert George..
Nearly seven in 10 (68 percent) of U.S. Catholics say they support same-sex marriage, up from just 35 percent in 2003. At the same time, Catholics are about split when asked if support for same-sex marriage goes against their religious beliefs (45 percent say that it does)... of the Catholic “Never Trump” movement.
About six in 10 Catholics (63 percent) say businesses should not be allowed to refuse services to gays and lesbians based on religious objections.
When it comes to how friendly religious institutions are to L.G.B.T. people, Catholics think better of their church than the American public does. Almost half of all Americans consider the Catholic Church to be “somewhat or very unfriendly” to L.G.B.T. people, with 35 percent seeing the Catholic Church as friendly.
The numbers are switched for Catholics, with 49 percent saying the church is friendly and 45 percent who say it is not.
While U.S. bishops have made fighting same-sex marriage a priority for several years, just 37 percent of Catholics report hearing the issue discussed by their priest in the past few months.
Oh?
We have FR Catholics who complain about things the POPE says!!!
Dang!
Sounds like teaching Everywhere in America is a mess!
Colleges now need to bring HS ‘graduates’ up to speed to become a freshman on campus, and Rome has a bunch of; apparently; members who had forgotten most of their CC training!
How DARE you use data to support your assertions!
Among which groups of people here?
I think you're right on this one...
oh wow...prayer aids??!! Really? You're justifying idolatry as a prayer aid?
Now if only the Israelis had thought of that argument.
You gotta send that one to Tim Staples.
Did they have a “Saint Golden Calf”?
ROMAN CATHOLICS
You can call it whatever you want or try to justify it however you want....it's still bowing down before an idol of a created being.
You're getting desperate in your attempt to justify the catholic worship of mary.
I don’t have to defend anything; someday you’ll explain to God how you regarded the mother of Jesus. Good luck (sincerely)...
ANd the rosary is not mentioned at all in Scripture and the Hail Mary is prayed 50 times while none of the other prayers even come close in number.
Nor is there any Scriptural promises about praying the rosary. It’s all from that apparition that called itself Mary.
1 Corinthians 10:1-4 For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock (petra) that followed them, and the Rock (petra) was Christ.
http://biblehub.com/text/romans/9-33.htm
Romans 9:30-33 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, as it is written,“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock (petra) of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
http://biblehub.com/text/1_peter/2-8.htm
1 Peter 2:1-8 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,
“The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
and
“A stone of stumbling, and a rock (petra) of offense.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
All occurrences of *petra* in the Greek.
You're doing the exact thing you accusing dan of.
Dan has been showing that Catholics as a group tend to vote majority liberal.
You've been attacking him personally.
Same here.
I also think Jimmy Carter is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
I agree.
I don't bow down to idols of her or rely upon her for salvation as does the catholic.
Many popes in the past have condemned them as schismatics.
And there are far greater differences between the EO and the Roman rite than even exist between mainline Prot denominations, (which is condemned in Prots and lauded in Catholics, by Catholics).
The second commandment instructs us to not make images or BOW DOWN before them.
Exodus 20
And the Catholic church has openly homosexual priests and the mantra is, once a priest, always a priest and what he does in his personal life doesn’t effect his ability to perform sacraments as long as his *intent* is pure.
yet you continue to deny you judge others even though the proof is not only there for Him to see but millions of others on the www...i hope your posse prays for your soul.
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