AP: Same-Sex Marriage Bill Dies in Maryland, 'a Deeply Catholic State'
Yesterday the Associated Press reported "Maryland gay marriage bill dies with no final vote." The article begins:
A bill to legalize gay marriage in Maryland fell short Friday after supporters failed to find enough votes to overcome Republican opposition and misgivings by some Democrats in the deeply Catholic state.
Just in case any readers missed the point, seven paragraphs later:
Some predicted that, if passed, the measure would have been petitioned to referendum in the deeply Catholic state.
Message received. But why does the AP writer characterize Maryland as deeply Catholic?
In 2009, the Gallup Organization produced an analysis of religious identity based on more than 170,000 interviews conducted earlier in the year. 24.3% of adult Americans identified themselves as Catholics. In Maryland, it was 21.9%, less than the national average. The Free State's percentage of Protestants and other Christians is 54.9, more than double that of Catholics. Overall, more than half the states have a greater percentage of Catholics than Maryland does.
Same-sex marriage is legal in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. According to Gallup, each of those states has a higher percentage of Catholics than "deeply Catholic" Maryland. Yet that's not mentioned. Perhaps it's because that fact doesn't fit in with the preferred mainstream media narrative.
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Maryland
Submitted by bkeyser on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 2:03pm.
is my home. I am not Catholic. I'm quite pleased that a liberal agenda has failed. In Maryland. A deeply liberal state.Your're it was just a typo.
Submitted by jdhawk on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 11:13pm.
Your're right. It was just a typo. The "reporter" surely must have meant "deeple liberal state." I am sure a retraction is in the offing if not immediately, within several million years. . . .AP may have said that because
Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 11:51pm.
AP may have said that because Gov. O'Malley, House Speaker Busch, and Senate President Mike Miller are all Catholics. But just because the state's political leadership are Catholic doesn't mean they are deeply so, as evidenced by their liberal politics on abortion and same-sex marriage.I too live in the Free State
Submitted by theduck6 on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 8:20pm.
and must agree with your assessment. It certainly has no shortage of catholic parishes but seems to be predominantly protestant based. If you add up the pseudo-intellectuals in Montgomery Co and add them to the addicted entitled in Prince George's and Baltimore they seem to overwhelm the rest of the state in both numbers and ability to go to the polls. If this were not such a beautiful state... BTW, since when was accuracy a requirement to the MSM?A deeply liberal state
Submitted by Mike Bates on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 2:11pm.
Ding, ding, ding. Think we have a winner here.Slowly but surely we're
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 2:29pm.
Slowly but surely we're taking our country back from the liberal underbelly, one shellacking at a time.
They asked and the good people ( real Americans ) of Maryland told them just what they thought.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
Maryland
Submitted by KC Mulville on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 3:06pm.
I live just north of Baltimore, and I'm Catholic. To describe this state as "deeply Catholic" is absurd. It's no more Catholic than the other states I've lived in. Besides, the state is now dominated by the counties around DC, and those are hardly Catholic strongholds.
They're just trying to excuse the failure by assigning it to a fictitious religious prejudice. Pathetic.
Gotta blame someone....who
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 3:44pm.
Gotta blame someone....who better than Catholics?George W. Bush?
Submitted by stratman on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 2:40am.
George W. Bush?
Sooner or later, some DUmmy or Journ-o-lista will tie Bush to whatever is the faux outrage or blame-shift of the day.
Easy to blame Catholics and ignore the truth
Submitted by Galvanic on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 3:33pm.
What the Democrats and media tend to underreport is that the groups who have voted against referenda for gay marriage are African-Americans and Latinos. Maryland's legislators may be quietly aware of this. In California, the Left blamed Mormons -- yes, Mormons -- for such a defeat, when it was the overwhelmingly majority No votes of blacks and Hispanics that brought the proposition down. Publicizing these facts would indicate that the disparate special interest groups that the Democrats rely on are not monolithic in social worldviews and mores.Yep. MD population is 30%
Submitted by forest on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 6:10pm.
Yep. MD population is 30% black and black Democrats tend to be against gay marriage - unlike their white limo-lib comrades. If they want to look at a demo that explains why a liberal state would oppose gay marriage, it would be race/ethnicity, not religious affiliation.Exactly, Galvanic.
Submitted by ant on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 6:31pm.
This should be proof to libtards that you can't engineer society to your liking, even if you think you have whole demographics in your pocket, there are factors that cannot be controlled. It's ironic to that while most libtards support illegal immigration the fact that many people from Latin America are Catholic is not going to fit in well with the other parts of their degenerate agenda. The muzzies they side with throw another wrench into the works, but when you think with emotions, planning is not your best asset.Ant
Submitted by astonrickenbach on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 7:00pm.
Interesting point and Dems supporting illegal immigration. Last study I found shows 49% of Dems supported the law in AZ (which I would have guessed as being less). Makes you wonder if they are beginning to realize if you start giving all the freebies away to the illegals it cuts down on what the Americans get. Maybe they're starting to use that thing called math.astonrickenbach
Submitted by ant on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 7:43pm.
That is a surprising number. I suspect a LOT of Dems are not of the Maddow, Schultz, Pelosi delusional variety, anymore anyway as you have noted, I think many are waking up to obvious lies and misguided legislation on just about everything under the Sun. And, as you stated, many may have that natural inclination to want to keep money they have earned and not pay for the child-birth of foreign nationals, for example (selfish bastards/sarc.). Excluding the raging libtards, of course, I assume we're talking average voters that vote Democrat.I've heard of being behind
Submitted by JoeBob on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 4:01pm.
I've heard of being behind the curve, but over 300 years?
"After Virginia made Anglicanism the established religion of the colony, numerous Puritans migrated from Virginia to Maryland, and were given land for a settlement called Providence (now Annapolis). In 1650, the Puritans revolted against the proprietary government and set up a new government that outlawed both Catholicism and Anglicanism. In March 1654, the 2nd Lord Baltimore sent an army under the command of Governor William Stone to put down the revolt, which was decisively defeated by a Puritan army near Annapolis in what was to be known as the "Battle of the Severn".[41][42] During the persecution of Catholics by the Puritan revolt, all of the original Catholic churches of southern Maryland were burned down. The Puritan revolt lasted until 1658 when the Calvert family regained control of the colony and re-enacted the Toleration Act. However, after England's "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, when William of Orange came to the throne and established the Protestant faith in England, Maryland outlawed Catholicism until after the American Revolutionary War. Many wealthy Catholic planters built chapels on their land to practice their religion in relative secrecy."
When other states have passed
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 4:26pm.
When other states have passed gay marriage (largely against the will of the people), Democrat politicians have pointed fingers at people who were angry about the vote, laughing at them and calling them 'god boys'. Doesn't matter how popular a house they build when they build it on sand. Eventually it will fall.I'm Catholic and I left
Submitted by Thoreau on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 7:03pm.
I'm Catholic and I left Marxistland because they're everything that isn't Catholic. So it weren't me.Left Wisconsin?
Submitted by Cowboy on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 12:15am.
Left Wisconsin?Hey--everyone knows that
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 8:30pm.
Hey--everyone knows that Catholics are just a bunch of child molesting homosexual hating bigots...right?? Everyone knows that...just ask anyone in the, uh, unbiased news media.The AP advertised that it
Submitted by Cowboy on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 12:03am.
The AP advertised that it supplies different versions of the news for different markets. You expect honesty from them?Why "deeply Catholic" description
Submitted by LaVallette on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 4:33am.
The misinformation is a typical ploy to set up a liberal win/win situation:If the legislation had succeeded: look at the "faithful deeply devout Catholics" poking the eye of their troglodyte hierarchy, a la "most Catholics are in favour of abortion or euthansia etc" despite the teachings of the church " or
The legislation failed because of them troglodyte "deeply devout Catholics".
Thye do not want to face up to the fact that at last the sleeping giant of intrinsic common sense and appeal of the natural order is waking up. After all regardless of similarities anyone who refers to a donkey as a horse is considered a fool.