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Where I live there are a lot of Latinos who are baptized Catholics that go to Protestant assembly halls at least every Wednesday and Sunday and are always talking about the bible. I have found most of them are divorced and re-married. It appears to me that the primary reason they became "conveniently religious" is to hold on to their spouse. Take a notice next time you run into the situation, they are all divorcees.

Where I live there are a lot of Latinos who are baptized Catholics that go to Protestant assembly halls at least every Wednesday and Sunday and are always talking about the bible. I have found most of them are divorced and re-married. It appears to me that the primary reason they became "conveniently religious" is to hold on to their spouse. Take a notice next time you run into the situation, they are all divorcees.

You are correct.  I have called many of them out.  I've run across former Catholics who were promoting Protestantism and hostile towards Catholicism in various contexts (in person or on message boards).  I usually get blunt --

"So, let me guess.  You rejected Catholicism in favor of Protestantism because either 1) you wanted to get divorced and remarried or 2) you had some problem with Confession."  They never deny this.

It's ALWAYS one of those two things and not because they objectively found errors in Catholic theology.  They merely convince themselves of these things AFTER THE FACT in order to rationalize and justify their abandonment of the Church.  And they get really hostile towards the Church precisely because deep down their consciences know this, so they rage against the goads of their conscience, trying to silence it with their hostility towards Catholicism.

This is why Protestantism appeals to people over Catholicism, and it's the only reason ... and it's why various forms of Protestantism were created in the first place (from Luther to Henry VIII).  Protestantism holds that sin is irrelevant and that you just waive your hand around saying "Jesus" and you're saved.  You pay lip service to Jesus being your personal savior, but then live your life however you want and commit whatever sins you want.

I would be surprised if you got people honest enough to admit this, Ladislaus. Usually people hide behind the facade of excuses/reasons they created after the fact.

They'll never admit that it's ULTIMATELY WHY they left Catholicism.  They cite the usual anti-Catholics slurs of the Protestants.  But they never deny that they're divorced/remarried or else had some problem with sin and Confession, and that this was the initial impetus for their leaving.  None of them ever say, "You're completely wrong.  I've been married to the same man/woman my entire life and Confession didn't bother me."  At best they fall silent and don't refute my allegation, and I take that as a tacit admission that the shoe fits.