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trof

(54,256 posts)
2. I like this one too:
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 07:28 PM
Jul 2019

If you are more fortunate than others, don't build a wall, build a longer table.

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
5. I hope the DUers who assume all Christianity is represented...
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 07:55 PM
Jul 2019

... by the religious right see this post.

Siwsan

(26,268 posts)
6. I got that from a cousin who is a very 'pro life', practicing Catholic, and who votes for Democrats
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 08:10 PM
Jul 2019

She is an outlier, for the Catholics in my family. Most are hard core right wingers. She has always leaned to the Liberal side of things.

At Easter, she and her youngest daughter, who is very pro choice, had a very frank discussion about their differing views on abortion. Although they are on different sides of the issue, they respect each other's opinion. I can tell you that I would have been disowned, by my mother, for ever voicing a pro choice view.

trev

(1,480 posts)
7. Not all Christianity, of course.
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 08:18 PM
Jul 2019

But in 2016, the majority of (white) Evangelicals and (white) Catholics voted for Trump. Especially the former, a group that is extremely active politically and is being courted flagrantly by the GOP.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
8. We were about to win the Catholic vote--decisively--until Comey and Putin did their damage. (eom)
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 09:23 PM
Jul 2019

trev

(1,480 posts)
12. Catholics have traditionally been Democrats
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 10:27 PM
Jul 2019

but
Evangelicals have not. I don't know why they switched.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
9. to me, religion will always be an evil cult, I have my reasons, one being the right to die with
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 09:42 PM
Jul 2019

dignity. Religious nut jobs force people dieing from cancer, other things to suffer, I have seen this up close and personal. This is just one of many ways religion has ruined this country.

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