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17th November 2010

“Support for same-sex marriage is directly related to the proportion of Catholics in a given state. Way to go, bishops!”

Mark Silk

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7 Responses to “17th November 2010”

  1. Joanne Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 5:03

    Mormon’s also have put millions and millions of dollars to defeat same-sex marriage in California, anyway

  2. Greateighthsin Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 7:13

    Lol, odd! I read the whole blog post, and there’s actually something to it. Yes, way to go Bishops keep doing what you’re doing, just do it without the little boys!

    I wish it could be said the same for Mormons.. It ticks me off to see how much they dumped into getting Prop 8 passed, yet to this day, haven’t had their tax exemptions revoked. They broke Constitutional law by involving themselves in the government, they need to be punished.

  3. CaptainZero Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 18:43

    I’m not sure the quote is making the point it thinks it’s making. The quote as written seems to say where there are more catholics people are more accepting of gay marriage. I think that is untrue. Perhaps what was meant was that support for gay marriage is inversely proportional with the number of catholics in a state? The the author meant what was said then you’d have to conclude that catholics are more supportive of gay equality then other denominations. Smells fishy to me…

    I notice that the catholic church continues it’s rightward stagger with the election of a new and decidedly conservative President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops yesterday. The Faith, at any rate, is no friend of homosexuals.

  4. j sutton Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 20:02

    To be fair though, the Bishops have done a lot to support paedophiles.

  5. Simon Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 20:44

    Is it not just the case that Catholics are more prevalent in the more urbanised states which in the US, as in most countries, tend to be more liberal than the rural areas.

  6. Atheist MC Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 20:58

    ’m not sure the quote is making the point it thinks it’s making. The quote as written seems to say where there are more catholics people are more accepting of gay marriage.

    No, exactly what it’s saying, paradoxical as it is.

  7. CaptainZero Says:
    November 17th, 2010 at 23:43

    Thanks A-Mc! Well, that IS paradoxical. Still, correlation is not causation so I’m not prepared to credit The Church for anything more than a statistical quirk. And as the article points out, if rank and file catholics are more pro-equality than the poulation generally that is in oppositon to the offical bigotted postion of the organization.