Catholics and white evangelicals not as happy with GOP as they were

[Hamlette]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/washington/24cnd-religion.html?hp&ex=1156478400&en=5c2b899f445f1c30&ei=5094&partner=homepage

The survey found that the proportion of Americans who say the Republican Party is friendly to religion fell 8 percentage points in the last year, to 47 percent, from 55 percent. Among Catholics and white evangelical Protestants, the decline was 14 percentage points.

“It’s unclear how directly this will translate into voting behavior, but this is a baseline indicator that religious conservatives see the party they’ve chosen to support as less friendly to religion than they used to,” Mr. Green said.

The article speculates it may be because the GOP is not right wing enough (some Republicans supported stem cell reserach and they did not pass an amendment banning gay marriage) but I wonder if it is that some people are thinking that many of the policies of the GOP are not good for anyone, let alone religious people. Could it be that these people think about other issues like the poor and the environment and realize that those are the issues christians should be concerned about?

I like to think. . . maybe we can bring them back into our tent. (Evangelicals are not all fundamentalist wackos. I know some who are very liberal. I disagree with them about god etc but we agree on almost everything else. (We still disagree on gays but my liberal evangelical friends do admit the state should stay out of it, only the church should "discriminate"))

[Monkeyman]

1. Irish Catholic from Chicago tell you what Party I am

[bryant69]

2. I think some feel like they aer being taken for granted?

But those tend to be the more extreme types. I think there are plenty of more mainstream types who are waking up to what the Bush Administration has brought us -like you say.

Bryant
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[Hamlette]

4. they have gotten everything they wanted short of a theocracy!

at least that's how I see it. I just don't see how they could be unhappy with W. And I hope (and urge you to pray) that W remains the MOST religiously insane of all our presidents. God please, don't make it worse!

[bryant69]

7. Well you know how it is

You get your stomach set for Lobster, Chicken Fried Steak just doesn't cut it.

Bryant
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[thereismore]

3. Still, they have noone else to vote for. nt

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Some of them figured out that gays not being able to get married

didn't get them lower gas prices, decent health insurance, or a job.

[Cleita]

6. When I went to parochial school in the forties and fifties,

everyone, including the nuns and clergy, were Irish, Italian, Polish or Mexican (California) and they were all union cheering Democrats. What changed?

[MissWaverly]

8. they voted on a single issue - abortion

I saw an interesting clip on Tv tonight, it said that in order to recognize God, that you had
to recognize it in yourself since everyone is made in God's image and THEN you had to recognize
in every person in society since they also are made in God's image. So you would have a kinder,
more tolerant society. This was from a rabbi, for a so called returned to moral society,
we have had a H*ll of a ride these last 6 years.