Democrats wooing dumbed down Catholics

4/19/2004 - 5:30 AM PST

By Barbara Kralis

The real title of this column, if we want to get rough (and we do) might be "Dumbed down Catholics voting for dumbed down Kerry." Or, "Welcome to Kerry's party for dummies." Allow me to explain why the dumbing down of U.S. Catholic laity is likely to win the 2004 Presidential Race for John Kerry.

Catholics worldwide numbered 1.07 billion in 2002, and more than half of them are in The Americas, says the 2004 Pontifical Yearbook. In the U.S., 65 million Catholics make up 25% of the nation's population and will result in 27% of the votes in this November 2004 election.

One survey reveals that 70% of all U.S. Catholics are still undecided how they will vote, even though their Pope has warned them that the act of abortion is an act of murder and one cannot vote for abortion. The Kerry campaign is most aware of these statistics of wishy washy or lukewarm Catholics. A significant part of Kerry's support in his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire came from Catholic supporters.

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-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45-nospam@hotmail.com), April 19, 2004

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-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45-nospam@hotmail.com), April 19, 2004.

It is astonishing, Bill. Same thing happened concerning Clinton and Evangelicals. I forget the exact statistics, but a huge percentage of people who called themselves "Evangelicals" helped vote Clinton in not only once, but TWICE.

Oh how I wish I wish I wish that the Bishops would come out strong AGAINST Kerry like that Bishop in St. Louis did! It sooo empowers the faithful to hear their Bishops do the "unpolitically correct" thing and stand up for the truth!

-- Gail (rothfarms@socket.net), April 20, 2004.

it would be so great if they would do that, gail, but its not going to happen.

a flaw of american bishops is that they are afraid of political ramifications. they are afraid numbers will go down if they offend. thats why i so love our pope: he is unafraid to speak out strongly against the society of death that has arrisen in the world.

-- paul h (dontSendMeMail@notAnAddress.com), April 21, 2004.