What the Catholic bishops really want

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i admit, it was tangential. though somewhat related.

how about this?

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm

A recent study by the Barna Research Group throws extreme doubt on these estimates. Barna released the results of their poll about divorce on 1999-DEC-21. They had interviewed 3,854 adults from the 48 contiguous states. The margin of error is ±2 percentage points. The survey found:

• 11% of the adult population is currently divorced.

• 25% of adults have had at least one divorce during their lifetime.

• Divorce rates among conservative Christians were significantly higher than for other faith groups, and much higher than Atheists and Agnostics experience.


Barna report: Variation in divorce rates among Christian faith groups:
Denomination (in order of decreasing divorce rate)

% who have been divorced
Non-denominational ** 34%
Baptists 29%
Mainline Protestants 25%
Mormons 24%
Catholics 21%
Lutherans 21%

** Barna uses the term "non-denominational" to refer to Evangelical Christian congregations that are not affiliated with a specific denomination. The vast majority are fundamentalist in their theological beliefs.


Catholics: preserving the Sanctity of Marriage, 79% of the time.

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kj wrote:
Are Muslims persecuted in the U.S.? I don't think so...

Ground Zero Mosque.

Rick Perry wrote:
there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school

Gays. We aren't being allowed to continue to force our religious beliefs that homosexuality is a sin and should not be permitted in the military.



I have no frickin' idea what he mean's by "openly" in the second part of the quote, but I suspect that he means the schools don't allow Christians to stand in front of the class and ask everyone to pray with them or have the entire class celebrate Christmas together.

Why do I suspect that? Because otherwise the first part is a lie, because children are free to celebrate Christmas and pray in school.

In other words, we are persecuting Christians as part of "Obama's war on religion." And we know by religion, he means Christianity, because Obama is not a Christian. And don't even try to tell me that the people this ad was aimed at don't believe that Obama's not a Christian. They don't even think he's an American.

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Grace62 wrote:
That works. Women are covered. The men who run the Catholic church who are supposedly celibate can continue to pretend that women in the congregations follow their directions on this matter.

As you pointed out in another thread, this isn't really about those women in the congregation. It's about the non-Catholic women who work for the schools and hospitals, etc.

As an article in my paper today states, it has no effect in New York State, where such coverage has been mandated by state law for years. The Catholic church is able to say, "We follow the law under protest." But they follow the law.

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