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Originally posted by AliHajiSheik
I recall reading that the largest growth demographic in certain bible belt areas, like North Carolina, are hispanic catholics. I think it has something to do with migrant labor settling down. While northern catholic parishes are closing churches, they can't house them all on sundays in places like Durham. It would seem to me that they vote consistently with the baby jebus crowd down there on many of the hot button issues like abortion. There was historically less inclination to push for blurring the lines of church and state when catholics were a disenfrachised lot but I see much more appetite among the conservative bishops that multiplied under JPII to get involved in politics (e.g., no communion for kerry voters, or the more relaxed version - no communion for kerry) and push for things like vouchers and faith based initiatives.
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I'm not a papist, but I am against communion for Kerry also. Not just on abortion but also because he is married to a she-devil.
