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To: KLP who wrote (51609)6/25/2004 4:00:39 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793670
 
What's interesting to me is that some say: "right wing conservatives" or "right wing Christian conservatives" and yet the Catholic Church, is under "Christian" in the different Religion categories.

I don't get your point. First of all, I don't think anyone says "right wing conservatives" since modifying "conservative" with "right-wing" is redundant. People say "Christian conservatives" to describe a group of people who are both Christian and conservative--as distinguished from liberal Christians or non-Christian conservatives. As a term of art I think it means those with a social-conservative/Christian political agenda as opposed to Christian conservatives who don't politicize their religiosity. I don't see a problem with this terminology.

How many Catholics vote for Democrats, and are pro-choice/pro-abortion?

Dunno. Probably quite a few Catholics either vote for Democrats or are pro-choice/pro-abortion or both. Catholics traditionally have been Democrats.

A quick google came up with these clips from an article that speaks to your question.

In other words, Catholics have become a bellwether block – as go Catholics, so goes the nation. In the extremely close 2000 election, Catholics were nearly as evenly divided as the country as a whole, siding slightly for Al Gore over George W. Bush, 50 percent to 47 percent...

According to CBS News exit polls, in the 2000 presidential election 55 percent of Catholic voters voiced support for abortion remaining either mostly or entirely legal – a number virtually identical to that of voters at large.

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