CATHOLIC DU-ers: The RW of the Catholic Church is attacking Obama. If you support him SIGN THIS.

[K8-EEE]

I know damn well that most Catholics AREN'T hard core right wing political activists but they are the ones who get all the ink during the elections. Remember when they were protesting Kerry taking communion because he was pro-choice - at the same time letting Schwartzeneggar off the hook, when he was also pro-choice?

These choreographed outrages about LOL "religious freedom" to deny women birth control pills etc., really needs to be countered by liberal Catholics this time.

http://www.catholicdemocrats.org/cfo/petition.php

[Suich]

1. I left the Catholic church in 1965 over birth control.

How ironic.

[Kath1]

5. I left in 2004.

I was in the process of a divorce and was becoming more socially and politically aware. I attended the March For Women's Lives with some friends and was profoundly moved by the experience. I left around that time. Quit taking my daughter, then 16, to church, also. She just turned 24. I have an ex and some other family members who are still furious at me for not raising her in the Church. I just didn't want to saddle her with that baggage and I think she is better for it.

[monmouth]

7. Many of us in my small hometown left our original doctors. We headed for the Jewish

doctors (two of them) that had opened up a practice and were not affiliated with a Catholic hospital. Wonderful medical care with religion not ever a matter of conversation.

[Kath1]

9. It is ironic.

Actually, me and the ex were pretty apolitical until he got into Limbaugh and all the other hate radio guys. That really turned me off and sort of sent me in the opposite direction. He "supported the troops." I argued that the best way to do that was to protest the war. He supported Bush, I was for John Kerry. Little things - he had a yellow ribbon on the truck, I had War is Not the Answer on the car. As we became more distant, I became closer with some liberal-minded women at the law firm I worked for. They turned me on to some Progressive web sites and, along with becoming more liberal on social issues, I realized I had serious issues with the Church on birth control. I was basically forbidden to go to the March for Womens' Lives but attended with friends anyway. Took my teenage daughter along, as well. That was pretty much the end of the marriage and the end of my relationship with the church. I'm sure he still attends Mass every Sunday and every holy day although he never paid me a dime in child support and did as little as possible to help me raise our child. Ironic indeed.

[Dawson Leery]

2. The hierarchy of the church is pure scum, horse manure.

As with the fundies, their outrage is reserved for issues of reproductive choice and "bedroom matters".
The horrors of war and poverty mean nothing to them.

[dmr]

3. Signed. K&R

The church & I have not met eye to eye for over 50 years, but I did learn much of my liberalism from the the church. It saddens me that they took such a hard right that they care less & less about ordinary people.

[Warpy]

4. The church, as the Vatican will remind you at the drop of a miter,

is not a democracy and doesn't belong to its members.

I wish more of its members would take a hike. There are alternatives out there for believers and many of them are quite sane.

[denem]

6. JP!! - Get the hell out of politics. OK - So it!

Fuck Nazi Ratzinger; Fuck the Vatican youth, and everything you stand for.

There is NO POPE, not one. who grew up in a Democracy.

If you want to be King, go to hell.

[rurallib]

8. has there been one Catholic woman made a fuss about this yet

from what I have seen it is the usual old men raising hell about birth control.

[CTyankee]

11. Yes, Peggy Noonan in the WSJ yesterday...

[Showrunner]

10. Ah...escuse me...

Rick Sanitarium & Newt are the Catholic Entries in this Race. Does that not tell us all we need to know about the Vatican Chapter of NAMBLA? Hurry, Hurry, Hurry...This 3-Ringer Ain't Done Yet! Thoughts at 3 A.M. http://thoughtsatthreeam.blogspot.com/?spref=tw

[K8-EEE]

12. IMO there are many Catholic liberal voters (think Ted Kennedy) but they get drowned out

By the wingnuts in "The Catholic League" etc...