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Abortion, Catholicism, politics, and other recent stats.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 8/11/2011 10:14AM

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Abortion

100,000 Babies saved from abortion through Focus on the Family's Operation Ultrasound program, which provides grants for machines and sonography training, since its 2004 launch.

Source: Focus on the Family/Denver Post

Church Life

Swiss churchgoers on why they attend

62%: "I'm just always there"

28%: I enjoy the services.

7%: Because I'm afraid about the afterlife.

5%: Because I believe in God.

Source: Reformed Press via Swissinfo.ch

Catholicism

8.6 Catholic marriages per 1,000 U.S. Catholics in 1972.

2.6 Catholic marriages per 1,000 U.S. Catholics in 2010.

Source: Our Sunday Visitor

Politics

I am less likely to support a candidate who is:

Catholic:

Mormon: 16%

Gay: 25%

Mainline:

Mormon: 19%

Gay: 30%

Evangelical

Mormon: 34%

Gay: 65%

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press via CT Politics

Traditional values

46% Americans who say the government should promote traditional values.

57% Americans who said this in 2008.

Source: CNN/Opinion Research via CT

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Brother Raymond

August 14, 2011 1:57am

Lets stop trying to please the world and fear God, give glory to Him. The Church in America is like an insecure teenager at a dance, wringing her hands in the corner pleading silently that someone will like her. We are the mightiest institution on the earth. We contain the POWER of God VICTORY over hell and death. May we live in this revelation.

Brother Raymond

August 14, 2011 1:55am

We should not support Catholics (Who are not christian they are catholic), or Mormons (If anyone brings another gospel let them be accursed), nor homosexuals (Homosexuals shall not enter the kingdom of heaven), we should stop focusing on being thirsty for glory and political power. The church, in its glory is the most powerful institution on earth. yet when you meld the church with the kingdoms of this world it is good for nothing but to be trampled by men. When God destroys Babylon in Revelation 17 the saints of God are called to rejoice. Do you know it is ok to rejoice at the destruction of wicked political institutions? A little leaven leavens the whole lump. CT paints whose a Christian with a broad brush. If you are not born again..you are not christian. If you have not the spirit of God through regeneration..you are not Christian. If the bible is a philosophy to you..you are not Christian. The bible is very clear what constitutes being a Christian.

Jake Eye

August 12, 2011 6:46pm

"It’s not that Catholics are less likely to marry than non-Catholics" why not show these stats?

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