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Becoming Beth
That's kinda interesting.
The GOP has spent decades courting the fundi Christian vote, and doing its best to remove barriers from the involvement of religious groups in politics and government where they have traditionally existed.
The Catholic Church has twice as many members in the U.S. as the SBC, the LDS and the Church of God combined, whose respective memberships supply much if not most of the religious conservative vote they have come to depend on.
But while busily removing barriers for the fundi supporters they have counted, apparently, on more mainstream groups keeping their traditional distance from the political arena. The Law of Unintended Consequences might be fixing to bite them in the ass.
When I was growing up one of the big boogeymen used by conservatives to scare their constituency (after Commies, of course) was the Catholics, who were all suspect immigrants anyway (and probably Commies). That was one of the popular warnings used to try to beat Kennedy, that he was CATHOLIC!!!
. There wasn't anything to it, of course, but it played well in the South.If the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were able to mobilize a significant fraction of their respective dioceses at the polling booth then it would provide a heck of a counterweight to the GOP's fundamentalist core constituency.
And all those fears could come true.
