According to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, yes … provided your “Catholics” include people who don’t practice the faith or, indeed, do anything Catholic. Do a poll of all Jews and you’ll probably find a large percentage who like a ham sandwich…but, if you actually look at Jews who take their faith seriously, you’ll come up with a markedly different result. Mrs. Townsend it doing the typical foolish thing for dissenting Catholics – using polls of unfaithful people to “prove” that the faithful want to become unfaithful. Its a great way to never lose an argument – stacking the deck, and all that, ya know?
Mrs. Townsend does claim that 54% of Catholics believe that homosexual relations are morally acceptable – and, as usual, she neglects to mention that (a) only 44% of devout Catholics believe thus and (b) the poll by Gallup is a strange one combining data over a three year period and apparently cobbled together in the run up to Obama’s commencement address at Notre Dame…in other words, not a convincing poll, by any stretch of the imagination (of course, the number of Catholics who believe that homosexual relations are morally acceptable should be 0, which shows we have a lot of catechizing to do…on the other hand, it might just be a misunderstanding between “tolerate” and “morally acceptable” – which might be a Catholic respondent misunderstanding, or Gallup putting together “apples and oranges” data sets).
This is the sort of thing we have to put up with from our dissident brothers and sisters – and it is tiresome. But it is also to be endured with good cheer – because our business isn’t in excommunication (that is only a rare and very sad necessity) but in unity. But please, non-Catholics, don’t believe everything our more foolish sisters say, ok?
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