Majority of American Catholics favor same-sex "marriage"

An excerpt from the Huffington Post article:

A new study about the attitudes of American Catholics towards homosexuality. Among the key findings:

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Nearly three-quarters of Catholics favor either allowing gay and lesbian people to marry (43%) or allowing them to form civil unions (31%). Only 22% of Catholics say there should be no legal recognition of a gay couple's relationship.

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of Catholics favor laws that would protect gay and lesbian people against discrimination in the workplace; 63% of Catholics favor allowing gay and lesbian people to serve openly in the military; and 6-in-10 (60%) Catholics favor allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt children.

Less than 4-in-10 Catholics give their own church top marks (a grade of an A or a B) on its handing of the issue of homosexuality; majorities of members of most other religious groups give their churches high marks.

A majority of Catholics (56%) believe that sexual relations between two adults of the same gender is not a sin.

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Surprising? Not really.

The study also said that seven-in-ten Catholics say that messages from America's places of worship contribute a lot.

Guess the preachers in Catholic Churches were not all too clear about the Church's teaching against homosexual ACTS and CO-HABITATION.

And here is the icing on the cake:

"Most American Catholics believe that one can be a good Catholic and disagree with the Vatican and the bishops on issues of personal conscience; gay-marriage has clearly become another issue, along with artificial contraception and divorce and remarriage, which Catholics believe is not core to what it means to be Catholic."

Now who would you blame for the mess in the Church?

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