60% of Americans say they support gay relationships. 77% support abortion rights

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http://www.daily-journal.com/archives/dj/display.php?id=418202

Catholic Church leads membership losses

04/10/2008, 11:24 am

Nearly 60 percent of Americans surveyed said they supported gay relationships. Seventy-seven percent of Americans said abortion should be legal in all or some cases. One in 10 Americans surveyed had been divorced in 2005.

The Roman Catholic Church is vehemently against abortion, makes its members go through an annulment process if they ever want to wed after a divorce and, according to the Vatican's Web site, views "homosexual practices (to be) sins gravely contrary to chastity."

Clearly, the church is not on the same page as society, an idea reflected by the fact that the it has lost more followers than any other religious group in the United States, found the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, released in February by the Pew Forum for Religion & Public Life. Thirty-one percent of Americans were raised Catholic, but only 24 percent still follow the religion as adults. That means roughly 10 percent of all Americans are ex-Catholics.

[tekisui]

1. That's out of reach for Rove's 50 + 1 "wedge" issues.

That's great!

What do they have left, terra and racism? I don't think either of those will work this year, either.

[mwb970]

2. I wouldn't expect the church to change its stance.

After all, it's not like it's a club where "majority rules" or something. But as society moves away from this fixed stance, the church should anticipate further decreases in membership, and in its relevance to society.

[sellitman]

3. Yet 50% give or take will vote for McBush in the GE?

Go figure.

[mondo joe]

4. The GE is a tally of those who vote, not all Americans.

That's why people who don't vote piss me off so much.

[lightningandsnow]

5. Wait. 40% of Americans DON'T support gay relationships?

God. I'd like to tell them to have a nice big cup of MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Sure are a lot more liberals than the pundits would have you believe!