Democrats have abandoned mainstream US Catholics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Support for abortion and same-sex marriage are now litmus tests for the Democratic Party, and anyone who opposes either policy would not allowed to stand as a candidate for senior elected office.
38% : Research last April by the respected non-partisan Pew Research Centre showed that US Catholics are no more conservative than Catholics here in Ireland, with broadly liberal views in relation to issues such as contraception, clerical celibacy, and tolerance for gay and lesbian people, even if same-sex marriage remains a divisive issue.
37% : For example, as recently as 2008 the then Democrat candidate Barack Obama opposed the introduction of same-sex marriage.
19% : Sir, - Liam Kennedy says that Irish-American Catholics have drifted away from the Democratic Party because they have "become more conservative as they cease to be immigrant outsiders", that they reject Joe Biden's "ecumenical liberal Catholicism", and even that they have suffered a "loss of faith in constitutional democracy" ("Conservative Catholics could swing US election in favour of Trump and Vance", Opinion & Analysis, September 11th).

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