http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022507007Oh my.
It's a good question, but the adroit sparkling old dude forgets he doesn't hang with cerebral people.
Stinky The Clown (50,428 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:20 PM
An indication of change in the party preference of Latinos?
I heard in a teevee discussion of Catholicism in Latin America where many Catholics are moving to various evangelical denominations and that the Catholic Church in Latin America is declining as a result.
Today I heard the same thing from a completely different source about US Latinos. Religion is very important to them, but the Catholic Church isn't cutting it. They, too, are moving to evangelical sects.
It occurs to me - and I may well be wrong in this assumption - that if the Catholic Church isn't sufficiently religious(?) for people and they choose to move to evangelical religions, that would signal an increasing conservatism, not a liberalization. Can that translate to an increasing general leaning toward increased conservatism, and does that portend poorly for Democrats in secular elections?
PLEASE: THIS NOT ABOUT RELIGION. It is about politics. Please address the issue and refrain from pitting one view against another.
CJCRANE (13,105 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:25 PM
1. Well, there's a new Latin American Pope now...
maybe that'll change the dynamics.
Stinky The Clown (50,428 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:28 PM
2. Actually, that is beside the point I was exploring . . . . .
I expect the new pope could have some impact on stemming these alleged losses of church members. That's not the point.
Is the exodus to evangelical religions - presumably conservative - an indication of a growing conservative lean among US Latinos?
Bluenorthwest (23,052 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 02:10 PM
3. How is it that you see the RCC as less conservative than protestant churches?
It's not.
Perhaps they are joining because women have a larger role in those churches? Because birth control is not forbidden? Because divorce is allowed? Some of those churches are even inclusive of LGBT people when the RCC is anti gay in a vehement way, the RCC is what the Pope says it is, anti gay, anti birth control, divorce forbidden, no role for women that is not subservient to men...
Stinky The Clown (50,428 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 02:58 PM
5. Why is every one of your posts so confrontational?
You could have said what you said, and made your point just as well, but in a less confrontational way.
OldDem2012 (3,246 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 04:33 PM
14. So, what's your answer to those questions/observations?.....
....I thought they were pretty good questions/observations, or am I also being too confrontational?
Stinky The Clown (50,428 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:53 PM
17. Those questions have little to do with my OP, so I am going to just not answer you.
How's that?
If you want to pick a fight, find someone else. I'm not engaging.
