Poll: Most Republicans don't know Rick Santorum is Catholic

[proud2BlibKansan]

Rick Santorum won the lion's share of voters in Tuesday's presidential primaries in Alabama and Mississippi who said it was very important to them that the Republican candidate share their religious beliefs.

Except the leading candidates don't, at least not in traditional terms.

Santorum, like Newt Gingrich, is a Catholic; the vast majority of Republican voters in both of the two Deep South states are evangelical Protestants. Once, not that many years ago, such differences mattered greatly. Now voters seem focused much more on beliefs as they affect public policy than on matters of creed.

Or maybe what appears to be indifference reflects lack of knowledge.

more . . . http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-pn-gop-primary-poll-religion-20120314,0,1778742.story

[gateley]

1. But do they know he's a fucking whacko? nt

[JHB]

4. Being fucking whacko and being Santorum's type of Catholic are not mutually exclusive

In fact, some people say they are linked.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Kudos to the Santorum campaign

For hiding this from Fundies.

I mean he is a member of a cult, not my words, Pat Robert's. But if they believe he is one of them...and truth be told his Opus Dei believes are very close to those of Pat. Let's not quibble over the eucharisty.

[rocktivity]

3. Well, duh

The alternative is a Mormon.


rocktivity

[left on green only]

5. I tend to agree with the last sentence in the OP

After all, romancatholic is a five syllable word, and most people tend to run it together when it is spoken.

[freshwest]

6. But, but.. Baptists say the Pope is the Anti-Christ! I'm so confused now.

Of course, there has allegedly been an increase of followers of the Reverend Moon in the south, too.