I'm not sure if I should even post this. "Voting for Hillary is a sin." I just returned from

[patricia92243]

Anna Marie, Florida. Yesterday, we were crossing the street and a big bus passed by with the "Voting for Hillary is a sin" painted in huge letters on the side, AND a microphone saying the same thing as loud as it could.

It all happened so fast that I couldn't see if there was a name of the person responsible for this repulsive display.

My only hope is that people with car windows rolled up and air-condition going couldn't hear it.

I am still truly shocked to the core about this! I guess I am naive but I just didn't realize that people could or would stoop this low.

[yeoman6987]

1. Well if the ave Maria crowd doesn't vote trump then Hillary wins by 99 percent

You know they are trump supporters.

[CajunBlazer]

9. Polls show that the majority of Catholics support Hillary

Or at least they are voting against Trump. It is the evangelicals who are lying to themselves so that they can support immoral Donald Trump. You need to be more care what you post.

[yeoman6987]

10. Wow! That is awesome!!!!!

[CajunBlazer]

12. I'll assume you are not being sarcastic

[yeoman6987]

13. No. if Catholics are going for Hillary, I'm thrilled!

[Kingofalldems]

18. Doubt it.

[okaawhatever]

17. Catholics voted 50% Obama 48% Romney and went Obama in 2008 also I believe. There is a

divide between white non-Hispanic Catholics and Hispanic Catholics. With the Pope's message of climate change, income inequality, immigration, anti-death penalty, etc. he has a majority of issues on the Dem side. Of course, the Republicans still have the anti-abortion, anti-birth control, anti LGBT in common with them, but a good chunk of Catholics don't agree with their church on those issues either.

[Roland99]

20. Not these (this?) "Catholics" >>>>

https://www.catholics4trump.com/the-true-story-donald-trump-did-not-mock-a-reporters-disability/

[CajunBlazer]

22. Poll results - don't confuse what American Catholics believe with church teachings

http://religionnews.com/2016/10/03/new-poll-catholic-voters-favor-clinton-for-president/

As the two Catholic candidates for vice president prepare to face off in a debate on Tuesday at Longwood University, a new poll of likely Catholic voters shows that Clinton leads Trump. The poll also shows that Catholics do not toe the hierarchy’s line on abortion, healthcare and religious refusals. Since 1972, the Catholic vote has been a reliable bellwether for the results of Election Day.

Key findings include:

46 percent of Catholic voters support Clinton, while 40 percent support Trump.

(snip)

[Cha]

2. That would be a terrible experience, patricia!

Oh yeah, they goin' that low and lower.. but remember what Michelle Obama says..

[Jason1961]

4. I own a duplex on Palm Drive!

I've never known that area to be "overly" religious so I imagine it is people from out of town.

It's sad but if history is any indicator there is NO low that the religious kooks won't stoop to.

[Tom Rivers]

5. republicans have always talked like this to bully people from voting how they want

i am a devoutly christian man that was raised in black churches in the south but to me my views on christianity are far different than what most republicans seem to think it means. to me it is about helping people in need that are struggling, showing respect for your fellow man and allowing them to live their own life, treating others as you want to be treated, and being true stewards of the earth by taking care of the environment.

[grossproffit]

8. I am also a Christian, who like you, believes in a God of love and compassion, not vengaence & hate

These "people" and I use the word loosely, give Christianity a bad name.

[workinclasszero]

14. Yup. They are a quasi christian cult of dominunists

They want to set up a theocracy in this country and impose their religious views by force of law.

These people are fascists with a veneer of religious BS that they made up in their republican fever dreams.

[CajunBlazer]

11. You have the right idea

Too many "christians" are far from Christ-like. They make a mockery of their religion.

[grossproffit]

6. It's Randall Terry. He's an anti choice lunatic.

[NCTraveler]

7. Anna Maria.

Manatee County as a whole is pretty conservative. Romney 56 Obama 43 in 2012. That said, Anna Maria is a very small and unique subset of that larger population. Only 2000 residents or so.

[Retrograde]

16. My grandfather said the same

about voting for Republicans - wisdom I follow to this day.

[treestar]

19. Some religious people

seem more about control of others than anything else. Like they are going to scare people into voting for Drumpf.

[Ligyron]

21. I take great comfort in the fact that many and more younger people find it difficult

to take religion - any religion, seriously.

Many older people were raised with a god belief of some kind but more and more people in countries where education and particularly the sciences are finding the idea to be ridiculous and not sustainable.

As mentioned above, in this country at least, it seems to largely give cover to bigotry, misogyny and the perpetuation of male dominance along with suppression of "the other".