Catholics Have Transformed the GOP, Now Lead the Conservative Movement

What do Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Speaker John Boehner, Representative Paul Ryan, Senator Marco Rubio, Governor Chris Christie, and Christine O’Donnell have in common?

They are all Catholics and powerful leaders within the Republican Party.

Timothy Stanley, a historian at Oxford University recently wrote an article for CNN about the Catholic transformation of the GOP over the last forty years.

The GOP originally formed in 1854 by wealthy northern WASPs opposed to Catholic European immigration. (From Italy, Poland, Ireland, Germany)

Catholic immigrants became Democrats and gradually developed political power. Catholics Democrats dominated Chicago politics and elected Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955. Five years later in 1960, Irish Catholic John F. Kennedy was elected president.

Following the assassination of President Kennedy and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s, many Catholics lost their place in the Democratic Party.

In the 1970’s, President Richard Nixon reached out to Catholic social conservatives. He admired the Church and decided to reach out to blue collar “white ethnics”.

Nixon privately told his staff “I have thought seriously about converting to Catholicism… I might have done it if I wasn’t afraid that people would say it was political… But you know I have had some really sincere feelings about doing it.”

He added, “You know what I like about Catholicism is that it is unswerving, stable, and solid in its teachings of traditional morality. Catholics don’t go off preaching all these half-cock social issues.”

Later in 1979, WASP evangelicals started the Moral Majority to promote family values and fight abortion, ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity, and radical feminism. WASP pastors like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson admired Pope John Paul II for speaking out against communism and eventually decided to welcome Catholics to their movement.

The Republican Party gradually absorbed Catholic teachings to fight liberals more effectively. They stopped quoting the Bible so much and started referring to the views of Catholic philosophers to justify conservative social beliefs.

The modern alliance between Catholics and evangelicals grew and took control of the GOP. They elected politicians with Conservative values and appointed Catholic judges to the Supreme Court.

Currently, six of the nine Supreme Court judges are Catholics. Five of them were appointed by Republican presidents ( Antontin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito)

The remaining three Supreme Court judges are Jєωs appointed by Democrat presidents.
(Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan)

Now, liberals are worried the Supreme Court will overturn laws and take away the “rights” of minorities.

They are terrified the Catholic Social Conservative movement will promote traditional values and end multiculturalism.

Original article posted at JettandJahn.com, read more here

Catholics Have Transformed the GOP, Now Lead the Conservative Movement

What do Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Speaker John Boehner, Representative Paul Ryan, Senator Marco Rubio, Governor Chris Christie, and Christine O’Donnell have in common?

They are all Catholics and powerful leaders within the Republican Party.

Timothy Stanley, a historian at Oxford University recently wrote an article for CNN about the Catholic transformation of the GOP over the last forty years.

The GOP originally formed in 1854 by wealthy northern WASPs opposed to Catholic European immigration. (From Italy, Poland, Ireland, Germany)

Catholic immigrants became Democrats and gradually developed political power. Catholics Democrats dominated Chicago politics and elected Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955. Five years later in 1960, Irish Catholic John F. Kennedy was elected president.

Following the assassination of President Kennedy and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s, many Catholics lost their place in the Democratic Party.

In the 1970’s, President Richard Nixon reached out to Catholic social conservatives. He admired the Church and decided to reach out to blue collar “white ethnics”.

Nixon privately told his staff “I have thought seriously about converting to Catholicism… I might have done it if I wasn’t afraid that people would say it was political… But you know I have had some really sincere feelings about doing it.”

He added, “You know what I like about Catholicism is that it is unswerving, stable, and solid in its teachings of traditional morality. Catholics don’t go off preaching all these half-cock social issues.”

Later in 1979, WASP evangelicals started the Moral Majority to promote family values and fight abortion, ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖity, and radical feminism. WASP pastors like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson admired Pope John Paul II for speaking out against communism and eventually decided to welcome Catholics to their movement.

The Republican Party gradually absorbed Catholic teachings to fight liberals more effectively. They stopped quoting the Bible so much and started referring to the views of Catholic philosophers to justify conservative social beliefs.

The modern alliance between Catholics and evangelicals grew and took control of the GOP. They elected politicians with Conservative values and appointed Catholic judges to the Supreme Court.

Currently, six of the nine Supreme Court judges are Catholics. Five of them were appointed by Republican presidents ( Antontin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito)

The remaining three Supreme Court judges are Jєωs appointed by Democrat presidents.
(Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan)

Now, liberals are worried the Supreme Court will overturn laws and take away the “rights” of minorities.

They are terrified the Catholic Social Conservative movement will promote traditional values and end multiculturalism.

Original article posted at JettandJahn.com, read more here

What a joke. This is such a neocon propaganda thread. True Catholic conservatism is not in the Republican Party, for they have too much wisdom to fall for that illusion. The Republican Party is essentially the same as the Democratic Party.

If Boehner was such a faithful Catholic, why did he and a bunch of other Republicans strike a deal with Democrats and extend public funding of Planned Parenthood so they could get their precious Congressional budget passed?

The Republican Party stabbed Pat Buchanan, a true conservative, in the back a long time ago, too, trying to paint him as racist because their Zionist - corporate crony - bankster - MIC masters told them to shun Buchanan. The GOP are a bunch of frauds and puppets. They could care LESS about morality, the unborn or the country. Their loyalty is to Wall St. and fighting wars - just like the Jackass Party.

Ron Paul has more honor, morality and truth than all of those "catholics" you mentioned above put together. Take your propaganda to Fisheaters or CatholicAnswers. Nobody wants your deception, here.  

This is such a neocon propaganda thread

Exactly.