If someone's going to ignore the Catholic hierarchy on social issues, there's no reason they can't ignore an evangelical church's positions on those too once converting. Kind of the point I made here:
And I fail to see why belonging to an evangelical church and supporting gay marriage is more hypocritical than supporting gay marriage and belonging to a Catholic church, even if it's assumed all evangelical churches are anti-gay.
In America at least, Protestants tend to take their faith more seriously and are more active and activist about it. They go to church more, are more conservative and vote more GOP. Dealing with such large and varied groups it is only useful to speak in the broad sense because you will have exceptions everywhere. The numbers remain that Hispanic protestants are more GOP than Catholics. This has a generational effect too as the next generations are brought up in this more conservative milieu.
I am not sure the point on the second post. Out of context, I don't see the hypocrisy.
From my personal view, I would be better for the Church to have marriage be a sacrament and as defined by it as man and wife etc... Let govt's decide the laws of the land and stay out of it.
At least part of this is due to the broader nature of the church. When doing polling average, one has to include both half-assed Catholics and the hardcore conservatives, but you don't have to do the same for evangelicals.
Yes, because of course, it's impossible to be a "serious" Catholic without being a "hardcore conservative."
