3 in 4 Texas Catholics support birth control (AP)

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AUSTIN — Most Texas Catholics disagree with the church’s position on birth control, according to the Scripps Howard Texas Poll.

Seventy-four percent of Catholics believe the church should back birth control, the poll found.

The poll randomly surveyed 1,000 adult Texans between April 14 and May 4. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

Bishop Edmond Carmody of the Diocese of Corpus Christi said the pope has no choice but to follow church teachings.

“It’s the teaching of the Lord,” Carmody told the Scripps Howard News Service for a story in Monday’s editions. “The pope and all of us have to follow the teachings of the Lord.”

The poll also showed 55 percent of Texans believe priests should be allowed to marry. Catholics were divided on the issue, with 50 percent supporting priests marrying and 45 percent opposing it.

Support for women becoming priests garnered less support in Texas, with 46 percent who favor allowing women into the priesthood.

Again, Catholics were split on the issue — 43 percent agreed that women should be able to become priests, and 50 percent disagreed.

On abortion, 33 percent of Texans supported making Catholic doctrine less strict. Forty-nine percent of Catholics said the pope should make the doctrine less strict; 46 percent disagreed.

The poll also asked Texans their opinion of Pope Benedict XVI. Thirty-six percent favored the pope’s election, 12 percent opposed it, and 52 percent didn’t know.

Among Catholics, 65 percent favored his election.
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I think you will find that the numbers are about the same across the whole country.

That is why we have a Pope and a Magisterium, to keep us form destroying ourselves.
 
I am surpried the numbers were that low. Did Moses poll on the 10 commandments before bringing them down?
 
Well, if they took the poll in Austin, does it really suprise anyone? There is a reason their motto is “Keep Austin Weird.”
 
Catholics ?

You can not be Catholic and support abortion .
However anybody can say they are Catholic to a poll taker.
 
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Catholics ?

You can not be Catholic and support abortion .
However anybody can say they are Catholic to a poll taker.
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I think that the poll said that a certain number wanted the Church to be less strict about abortion, not that they supported it. We don’t know what was meant by “less strict.” A lot of folks are happy with the President and consider him pro-life, yet he’s one of those “three exception” pro-lifers. It could be that such is what those Catholics would prefer.
 
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The church isn´t a democracy, morals aren´t chosen.
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De jure, but not de facto.
 
The Church cannot be “less strict” about abortion. :nope:
 
Good thing the Church isn’t based on polls or popular opinion.

Sure, most “Catholics” use BC. No news here. Hope they get their asbestos suits out of the cleaners in time.
 
I’d like to see the actual poll questions. That’s where the rubber hits the road.
 
Austin just happens to be one of the most liberal places in Texas and probally the country so I don’t think anyone should take this poll at face vaule. When ever polls like this come out I remember what my mother has always told me. “If you ask for proof then someone can find the poll/numbers that will support whatever you need”
God doesn’t listen to Polls and neither do I. The polls tell me it is okay to have sex before marriage and that society says it’s okay to starve and kill a women. My Lord tells me it is not okay; so i think I will follow him. He will give me all the strength i need to stand up against the pressure of society and instead do whats right by his laws.

GOD BLESS,
BEckers
 
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