[usconservative]

The survey found that a "strong majority" of Catholics said children being raised in unconventional families with unmarried parents living together, same-sex couples or single parents, is acceptable. Around 90 percent, though, preferred that children be raised with a married mother and father. Forty-three percent said it's acceptable for a gay couple to raise a child.

I think this says pretty much everything one needs to know about the "modern day" Catholics.

I was raised Catholic and married in the Catholic church and would've NEVER imagined thinking any of the above was acceptable. I will say that attitudes like those above combined with what I viewed as being weak leadership in the local archdiocese were major contributing factors in my and my wife's decision to leave the Catholic Church. (The issue that pushed us over the edge and out the door was the sexual abuse scandals, one of which happened in the parish we belonged. I do not wish to re-hash any of that discussion.)

It's really disturbing to me to see the transformation of the Catholic Church, driven by the cafeteria Catholics and weak leadership in the church.

These are my own opinions, and I do NOT mean to offend Catholics here on FR. I just happen to hold the opinion that those who are sincere and steadfast in their Catholic faith are overwhelmingly outnumbered by the "cafeteria Catholics" who pick and choose what to believe in. It's sad, really.

[terycarl]

. I will say that attitudes like those above combined with what I viewed as being weak leadership in the local archdiocese were major contributing factors in my and my wife's decision to leave the Catholic Church. (The issue that pushed us over the edge and out the door was the sexual abuse scandals,

During the Clinton administration, did you renounce your citizenship because the country had weak leadership and the president was a sexual predator????........ I didn't think so.