Posted by
Tom G. on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:00:00
Pew reports today that Catholics make up 24% of the US Population while Protestants make up about 51%. When you consider the positions taken by both party platforms and the various candidates for high elective office, it becomes very clear that too many religious voters, fail to do faith with their religious doctrines when at the ballot box.
The Congress, 111th, to be seated next week is comprised of majority Democrats in both houses. These two houses of Congress are very much dominated by people, claiming to people of faith. Catholics, in particular, have a larger representative sample in the Congress, holding 30% of the seats. Yet, one cannot claim that they undully influence the policy of the United States as Papists having as senior members people like Speaker Pelosi--who fail to understand the doctrine of her own faith.
Catholics did not vote this past November based upon the teaching of the Catholic Church and her Doctrine. This failure to keep its members faithful to the Body of Christ has diluted the impact religion plays in the fabric of our national governance. One only has to view the expansion of Government, the Failure of faith to keep those in power respectful of the truth, morals and ethics. Whether it is the Financial Crisis or the likely expansion of other morally dubious initatives, the place faith has in the discernment by voters on which candidate best reflects the values of thier faith is largely irrelevent in todays politics.
The Value Voter has not risen to the challanges of their individual faith, rather they have left the moral imparitive of their faith in the pews. This failure has led to a fuzzy line, or lack there of...no longer can the left claim Church and State are not seperated enough. They are hardly even in the same vicinity.
The Catholic Church, for too long, has allowed for the pressures from the left to forcibly remove Catholic Theology, Doctrine and Faith requirements from being extolled to the lay Catholic. The Clergy, for too long, kept an unhealthy distance between pew and ballot box, from the pulpit and the Congressional Chamber. Today, Barrack Obama is our newly elected President, largely because hispanic/latino Catholics ignored the dictates of the Catholic Church. They (Latino/Hispanic voters) voted for Obama by about 75% over McCain despite the fact McCain had a nearly perfect PRO-LIFE record and Obama had an almost perfect Anti-Life record. No candidate in US history was more PRO ABORTION than Barrack Obama, and today we can thank the disorder of the conscience of hispanic and latino voters.
Ultimately, the burden does not fall on one group or class of voter, rather the entire group of Value Voters, or those who claim a strong Religious belief. The Protestant Voters too were far to easly swayed by things of this world, rather than the kingdom of God. We stand today dealing with issues not dreamed of only a decade before...the failure of the all Christain faiths to speak as one on such things as Abortion have led to the steady decline of religion in America.
Value Voters have been losing and blurring the line of morality since the seventh Lambeth Conference in 1930...the demarkation of the when the Protestant Churches turned towards the allowance of Contraception as a Birth Control Method...prior to this moment, the unanimity of the Faith march was clear and present!
Alas, we have a President who can count himself President upon the backs of Latino/Hispanic Catholics...So like the Protestants of 1930, we have the Catholics of 2008...I will cringe, when I hear President Obama offer the words..."God Save the United States of America" and "God Protect the United States of America"