Obama Catholics

Obama Catholics

vort-2012-05-03

Hello everyone and welcome to The Vortex where lies and falsehoods are trapped and

exposed. I’m Michael Voris.

 

The campaign season is in full swing already.  It’s actually a little early as general

elections go in the United States – people don’t usually tune into until Labor Day .. but it

is what it is.

For Catholics .. election fever doesn’t seem like it could get any hotter. The Obama health

mandate requiring Catholic institutions to chuck their consciences and pay for birth

control and abortion-causing drugs for their workers has already engaged a good portion

of Catholics.

 

And it’s only the beginning of May. 

But given all that .. what’s surprising is that it seems like .. despite all the uproar in the

Catholic blogs and media .. that MOST Catholics in America are somehow either

blissfully unaware OR simply don’t care about Obama’s conscience incursion.

In a recent Gallup Poll .. Catholic voters nationwide remarkably still somehow favor

Obama 51-45%.  There are some possible bright spots in that in some of the more crucial

states .. the margin might be a little closer .. but nonetheless .. this poll and others which

agree with it .. would seem to indicate that faithful Catholic still have a yeoman’s worth

of work to do in informing fellow Catholics about Obama.

When you stop to consider ALL that has been written and said about this issue ..

including in the secular press .. it seems astonishing that the needle has barely moved

among Catholic voters who support Obama.

In the ’08 election .. the Obama margin among Catholics was 54 to 46%.  While the

number supporting Obama has shrunk a little bit .. from 54 down to 51 .. its certainly not

clear that this can be attributed to the Obama attacking Catholic principles and religious

liberty factor.

Obama has seen his numbers decline among almost EVERY group across the board.

But alarmingly from a Catholic point of view .. his numbers among Catholics still remain

some of his strongest support compared to other groups and THAT suggests that the

message of Obama’s campaign against the Church just hasn’t gotten out to Catholics in

the street .. or if it has .. even more disturbingly is the possibility that they HAVE heard

it .. and simply dismissed it.

What IS certain is that the vast majority of Catholics in America are simply disengaged

from the Church in any meaningful manner.  75% don’t go to Mass on Sunday .. and

that’s on a GOOD day!

Most .. huge numbers .. disagree with and reject Church teaching on practically every

area regarding sexual morality .. which is perhaps why Obama decided to strike at the

issue of contraception.

This was a battle he did not need to engage in.  A majority of states already required that

Catholic employers – as well as all other employers - provide birth control to workers

through health insurance plans.

So – it makes sense that the average Catholic – who remember, doesn’t go to Mass and

rejects Church teaching – would say – what’s the big deal, who cares?  I’m not gonna

decide my vote based on this issue – which seems like a tempest in a teapot.

Obama has chosen an issue which he knows MOST Catholics simply do not care about ..

contraception.  Which is why the bishops have chosen to fight this as a religious liberty

issue as opposed to what it really is – a violation of natural law, imposed by the state on

all of its subjects.

Perhaps the destruction of Catholic moral teaching over the past 40 plus years – as

Cardinal Timothy Dolan openly admitted a few weeks back – has been so widespread that

there is no hope that this can be fought any other way other THAN as a 1sy amendment

issue.

If that’s true .. it’s hard to see that a massive Catholic vote could be mobilized against

Obama based on this issue.  Bottom line is this – most Catholics don’t agree with the

Church teaching on birth control.  So they aren’t gonna rally around the issue come

November.

In principle .. in a poll or when talking with friends .. sure some might say AND agree

that they think it’s wrong for Obama to try and pull this .. but don’t count on that being

anything top of mind with them when they walk into the voting booth.

Faithful Catholics in the blog and on the internet in general can tend to get a very myopic

vision of the world – as can any group that hangs out with just its own members. 

The very real danger of Obama is the man pushes laws that violate the natural law .. not

just the Constitution.  This battle needs to be fought in that arena .. not the religious

liberty arena.  The religious liberty issue is a loser .. sure fire loser.  People won’t

remember it all come November.

Catholics in general have already largely dismissed it right now .. in the heat of intense

media coverage.  They certainly won’t care about it 6 months from now.

This is a perfect opportunity for the Church to open up the much more important

discussion of natural law and evil .. let’s just hope that it happens. 

GOD Love you.  I’m Michael Voris.

 

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