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The Public Religion Research Institute has released a poll that probably won’t come as much of a surprise among Catholics. According to the poll, nearly three quarters of Americna Catholics favor legal recognition of same-sex union, either in the form of civil unions (31%) or marriage (43%) Only 22% of Catholics oppose all legal recognition of same-sex couples. When same-sex marriage is explicitly defined as civil marriage, support shoots up higher: 71% then support same sex civil marriages “like you get at city hall.”
Kathy
March 24th, 2011 | LINK
Talk is cheap. My late mother always said, “actions speak louder than words”. Catholics write checks so their bishops can financially support anti-gay campaigns across this country. Anybody can “say” they support equality. Their actions show their true feelings.
Lucrece
March 24th, 2011 | LINK
Oh, come on, Kathy. I’d like to see you buying only from locally made products– not imported ones, much less from department stores and monsters like Walmart/Target.
I’m pretty sure somewhere in your trail lies some financial support for outsourcing, exploiting workers, and those tax dollars you pay also surely go into the pockets of crooked politicians.
The Catholic Church spends their money on several humanitarian efforts besides their horrid campaigns. It’s a mixed bag, as with most things.
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Catholics tend to do better than any other Christian branch because of what I like to see as a non-male dominated development schools.
Yes, putrid preachers helm any Catholic institutions, but it is the good sisters who are the body and soul of the Catholic community. And these sisters from an early age tend to pass on more compassion and less judgement on children and adults than do evangelical and protestant male preachers, who actually are more involved.
It’s good when the bigots are shrouded in bureaucracy– it marginalizes them from the faithful.
MattNYC
March 25th, 2011 | LINK
>these sisters from an early age tend to pass on more compassion and less judgement on children and adults
I’m guessing that some of those on this list who went to Catholic school may want to show you the “scars of compassion” from the nuns that taught them. ;) Just sayin’
Nerdly
March 26th, 2011 | LINK
You might want to dig a little bit about this poll, and its sponsoring organization. Is the sponsoring organization neutral or partisan? Is it backed by partisan interests? If the sponsoring organization (cf. the poll released by Human Rights Campaign a couple weeks ago) is partisan, the poll is, in my opinion, junk science. Yes, a la our friend Paul Cameron.
If an attitudes poll is conducted or commissioned by an organization that wants to see certain results, this inherently compromises the validity and meaningfulness of the poll.
There is also the phenomenon of failing to publicize results from any poll that doesn’t come out “right.”
This cuts both ways of course. I wouldn’t trust a poll commissioned by NOM as far as I could throw ‘em. Or Fox News for that matter.
As someone with some background in scientific research and statistics, I hate seeing our side resort to doing anything scientifically questionable.
Timothy Kincaid
March 28th, 2011 | LINK
Nerdly,
This is one site that does take polling bias into consideration. We look not only at the organization but also at the specific questions asked, language selected, lead up questions, sample selection, polling methods, margin of error, etc.
One cannot simply look at the organization to accept or throw out the results. You have to determine whether it was a push poll or an attempt to collect data and whether the built-in bias (there’s always some) materially skews the results.
A reputable poll will generally provide you the methodology, the question list, and the mostly-raw results.
PPRI, at Texas A&M, is pretty reputable so we can assume that this is not a push poll. If you have any specific objections or observations about the methodology, please go read the report and tell us your specific concerns.
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