The Catholic influence in America has been to war against it’s conservatism and to empower the left and the Democrat party.
Places like Brazil and Mexico can probably use a little Christian conservatism.
What's your church's position on artificial contraception? The issue which has set the Catholic Church at loggerheads with the Obama administration. Does it even have a position? Does any Protestant Church have a position?
You can't look to the Bible. There's nothing there.
That is why, with one or two notable exceptions, Protestantism is completely flummoxed by this issue.