I must say that what GaussLaw said is very accurate regarding Chile, people just don't take Catholicism very seriously, it's a default religion and the moral strength that Catholicism won by helping many victims of the military government is pretty much gone now.
It's actually quite common here to see many Protestants being laughed at because they are very passionate about their beliefs when compared to the Catholics. While the Catholic leadership in Chile is quite opposed to gay marriage and abortion (against a growing number of priests who support such causes), Catholics seem to be kind of split on those issues, and you will find that several of them are supportive of those issues.
In comparison, most of the Protestants I've talked to are quite open in stating that for them homosexuality is a sin and gay marriage should not be legal, and they don't seem to be willing to consider changing their minds on the subject.
That's an interesting observation, though there is more to say about the Catholic church and Pinochet's military government.
While Santiago's archbishop Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez definitely opposed Pinochet's regime, a lot of Chileans dislike the Catholic church as a whole because they feel that it, by and large, favored Pinochet's regime. Of course, some right-wing Chileans approve strongly of Pinochet, but for the most part he is a rather detested figure.
