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• 29-Year-Old U.S. Olympian Gaining National Attention Because…She’s Committed to Virginity

  May 24, 2012 at 6:33pm

  Why is it necessary for some of you to post such hateful things about a woman who has chosen to save herself. Why is that so offensive to you?

  As some people have already pointed out, this use to be the norm. Now the only man we can think of that is also saving himself is Tebow?

  Win some Gold in London, Lolo
  God Bless You

• ‘Not Very Christian’: MSNBC’s Bashir & His Panel Slam the Catholic Church’s Response to the Contraceptive Mandate

  May 23, 2012 at 5:36pm

  In reply to hi.

  Hi
  Not everything you hear should be taken at face value. A deeper look into the numbers from the 08 election show the numbers are tainted with race and immagration issues:
  Support for Obama in 2008 (US Census Bureau)
  53% of all voters
  94% Black Protestants
  89% Black Catholic (Vote based more on race than religion)
  75% unaffiliated
  71% Other minority Protestant
  71% Other minority Catholic (Hispanics were not going to vote for McCain)
  52% less-observant white Catholic
  55% less-observant white protestant
  41% observant white catholic
  41% observant white protestant

  Observant refers to voters who report attending religious service at least once a week.

• Jeff Foxworthy Will Host ‘The American Bible Challenge’ Trivia Game on GSN This Summer

  May 22, 2012 at 2:28pm

  In reply to BibleCatholic.

  The current canon of Scripture was affirmed at the Council of Rome in 382 under Pope Damasus, which included all and only the seventy-three books Catholics honor today. This canon was repeated at Hippo and at Carthage (A.D. 393 and 397, respectively) and has been repeated ever since.
  It was Martin Luther who tossed out the seven books considered canonical since the beginning of Church history. He also rejected the epistle to the Hebrews and the book of Revelation. He also called the epistle of James “an epistle of straw” because James 2:14–26 conflicted with his personal theology on good works. He also added the word (in his German translation) “only” in Romans 3:20 and Romans 4:15, and he inserted the word “alone” in Romans 3:28.

• Jeff Foxworthy Will Host ‘The American Bible Challenge’ Trivia Game on GSN This Summer

  May 22, 2012 at 12:26pm

  In reply to BibleCatholic.

  Timeline of the Bible
  AD 51-125 – The New Testament books are written.
  AD 140 Marcion, a businessman in Rome, taught that there were two Gods: Yahweh, the cruel God of the Old Testament, and Abba, the kind father of the New Testament. Marcion eliminated the Old Testament as scriptures and, since he was anti-Semitic, kept from the New Testament only 10 letters of Paul and 2/3 of Luke’s gospel (he deleted references to Jesus’s Jewishness). Marcion’s “New Testament”, the first to be compiled, forced the mainstream Church to decide on a core canon: the four Gospels and Letters of Paul. AD 367 The earliest extant list of the books of the NT, in exactly the number and order in which we presently have them, is written by Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, in his Festal letter # 39.
  AD 382 Council of Rome (whereby Pope Damasus started the ball rolling for the defining of a universal canon for all city-churches). Listed the New Testament books in their present number and order.
  AD 393 the Council of Hippo, which began “arguing it out.” Canon proposed by Bishop Athanasius.
  AD 397 The Council of Carthage, which refined the canon for the Western Church, sending it back to Pope Innocent for ratification. In the East, the canonical process was hampered by a number of schisms (esp. within the Church of Antioch).

• San Francisco renames street for Nancy Pelosi, hilarity ensues

  May 22, 2012 at 12:21pm

  Highway to Hell

• Catholic University Drops Student Health Care Plan Over Contraceptive Mandate

  May 16, 2012 at 5:39pm

  In reply to teddrunk.

  JohnD
  Why would I write speaches for Obama? I only deal in facts.
  The numbers you are having trouble understanding are from the US Census Bureau

  My post was in response to DrunkTed and SECUREOURBORDERSNOW who are under the delusion that the majority of Catholics vote for Democrats.

  Next time you might want to read before you attack

• Catholic University Drops Student Health Care Plan Over Contraceptive Mandate

  May 16, 2012 at 11:16am

  In reply to teddrunk.

  Barack Obama, who chose the Catholic Joe Biden as his running mate, received 54% of the Catholic vote in 2008 compared to John McCain’s 45%, close to the overall 52% to 46%.
  Support for Obama in 2008
  52% of all voters
  94% Black Protestants
  89% Black Catholic (Vote based more on race than religion)
  75% unaffiliated
  71% Other minority Protestant
  71% Other minority Catholic (Hispanics were not going to vote for McCain)
  52% less-observant white Catholic
  55% less-observant white protestant
  41% observant white catholic
  41% observant white protestant

  Observant refers to voters who report attending religious service at least once a week.

• Catholic University Drops Student Health Care Plan Over Contraceptive Mandate

  May 16, 2012 at 11:14am

  In reply to teddrunk.

  Although only about one third of Catholics voted for Bush’s reelection in 1992, most Catholic defectors switched to independent Ross Perot, not the successful Democrat Bill Clinton. Unlike previous elections (such as in 1972, when George McGovern’s Catholic support was eight percentage points higher than overall) the Catholic vote was not more Democratic than the overall electorate, but split almost identically to it. The trend away from a Democratic dominance of the Catholic vote continued in 1994, when for the first time in history Democrats did not receive a majority of Catholic votes in elections for the House of Representatives; as with 1992, the Catholic vote split resembled that of the overall electorate. This trend reversed slightly in 1996, when Clinton’s share of Catholics was four percentage points ahead of overall, and they comprised about half of the margin between him and the unsuccessful challenger Bob Dole. The 1990s ended, however, with Catholics as “the largest swing vote in American politics.”
  Their party independence continued into 2000, and Catholics became the large religious grouping that most closely reflected the total electorate, ahead of mainline Protestants. 50% of Catholics voted for Al Gore versus 47% for George W. Bush in the very close 2000 election. 52% of Catholics voted for Bush’s successful reelection compared to 47% for the Catholic John Kerry in 2004, versus 51% to 48% overall.

• Catholic University Drops Student Health Care Plan Over Contraceptive Mandate

  May 16, 2012 at 11:13am

  In reply to teddrunk.

  Since the 1960s, the Catholic vote has come to reflect the nation as a whole instead of being predominantly Democratic. In the 60s and early 70s, a number of Catholics and Southern whites abandoned their traditional affiliation with the Democratic Party and began to support the Republican Party. This shift is evidenced by the fact that Nixon received only 33% of the Catholic vote in the 1968 election compared to 52% in 1972. As a group, Catholics represented a quarter of the nation‘s electorate and were now one of the nation’s largest swing groups. Both parties began to aggressively woo both the Catholic voters.
  In his successful 1980 campaign against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan won about half of the Catholic vote. “Reagan Democrats”, many of them blue-collar Catholics, comprised 25% of the Democrats who voted for Reagan, and formed an important part of his support in 1984 as well. Despite Catholic Geraldine Ferraro‘s presence on the Democratic ticket as Walter Mondale’s vice-presidential running mate that year Reagan won 54 to 61% of the Catholic vote, only slightly different from the overall 59%. Although the majority of Catholics in 1984 remained Democrats, compared to 1980 Catholic votes switched to Reagan at about the same level as most Protestant groups. Reagan’s vice president George H. W. Bush won about the same number of votes as Michael Dukakis, making 1988 the third presidential election in a row in which Catholics failed to support the Democrat

• Chris Matthews, Barney Frank Get Testy With Tony Perkins: ‘If You Were Barney’s Father, He Wouldn’t be Gay?’

  May 15, 2012 at 6:21pm

  In reply to Best_Patriot.

  “so what if gays get married, how does it affect you?”

  The drop of the next shoe:
  Kansas town approves law barring churches from discriminating against gays