If they are not Catholics then they are not Protestants either.
It’s hypocritical to disown them yourself and then demand someone you disagree with to own them. You do not own the vocabulary nor have the right to define terms for anyone else but yourself.
If you have the right to define terms and who’s *Protestant* then likewise we have the right to define who is Catholic. And that is actually a lot easier. For one thing, they self-identify as Catholic and the other is that the Catholic church still treats them as Catholics in good standing.
I worked with and lived next to a great number of very faithful active in their parishes, supporting the church financially and with their presence at mass AS LEAST weekly, Catholics and to a person, they voted democratic.
When asked directly how they could vote for a democrat in light of their stand on abortion and the church teaching about it, their reason? Because democrats are *for the poor*.
Matter of fact, recently I had one of those very faithful Catholic tell me who they were pro-homosexual marriage and how they were pro-abortion with the comment of *I know what the Church teaches but no one has the right to tell a woman what she can do with her own body.* From someone who herself had *6* kids.
You in your own opinion can disown them if you want but unless your comments are coming directly from the Vatican as its official position on these people, then it’s meaningless.
Ironically, Catholics who disown liberal voting Catholics sure quick to remind all those of us who left the Catholic church and became born again/born from above Christians that we are still Catholic because once a Catholic, always a Catholic. Y’all can’t seem to make yup your minds.
So no, we non-Catholics will NOT take the blame you are trying to put on us. Those are YOUR people whom the Catholic church still treats as members by serving them communion, baptizing their children, marrying them, and giving them Catholic funerals and until the Catholic church actually puts itself together and officially acts on what it claims, your opinion is a meaningless waste of bandwidth.
Boom!
I love it when totally fallen away Catholics, now totally protestant, tell everyone what they ‘know’ to be the absolute truth about what a Catholic is, what he thinks, what it takes to be a member of the ‘Catholic club’, and who gets to define what.
nice try.