Obama is Losing Catholics

Catholics may vote like everyone else much of the time, they may be a swing vote some of the time, but there comes a time when they are so offended they remember they are Catholics. This may be one of those times. Michael Gerson, WaPo:

But the controversy surrounding the Notre Dame invitation highlights growing strains in an important political relationship. In the last election, while evangelical Christians generally remained loyal to the Republican nominee, Catholics decisively shifted their votes toward Obama. In 2004, George W. Bush won the Catholic vote by five percentage points. Obama carried it by nine points in 2008. A number of Catholic thinkers set out a "pro-life, pro-Obama" position -- disagreeing with Obama's pro-choice views but trusting in his moderate instincts and conciliatory temperament.

So far, Obama has done little to justify this faith. His initial actions on life issues -- funding overseas abortion providers, removing restrictions from federally funded medical experimentation on human embryos, revisiting conscience protections for pro-life health-care professionals -- have ranged from conventional to radical.

It was always just a moderate facade. How else to explain his silently sitting in the hate-mongering Rev. Jeremiah Wright's pews for 17 years? How else to explain his cold-blooded opposition in Illinois to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act? Suffer the Little Children

President Obama is losing Catholics--better that than we lose our faith.

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