{"id":108,"date":"2008-08-31T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/palin-and-the-ex.html"},"modified":"2008-08-31T16:37:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T16:37:10","slug":"palin-and-the-ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2008\/08\/palin-and-the-ex.html","title":{"rendered":"Palin and the Ex-Catholic Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Waldman just posted some new news – at least for me.  That Governer Palin was a Roman Catholic before she was an Evangelical<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

He writes:<\/p>\n

Have we ever had an ex-Catholic on a major presidential ticket? I can’t think of any.<\/p>\n

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Palin was Baptised as a Cahtolic and later became an evangelical Protestant. This will thrill evangelicals (quite a few of which are ex-Catholics) but I wonder how Catholics will feel about it. It’s unclear when in her life she left the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

The traditional Catholics who might normally be the ones who be more irked about such apostasy are thrilled<\/font><\/a> because Palin is so pro-life, as God-o-Meter reports.. The liberal Catholics won’t care because they’re voting Democratic anyway. The riddle is those centrist Catholics – the key swing bloc – who have stuck with the Catholic church through great difficulties out of loyalty and cultural affinity. Will they view her as a person of great conscience who lives her convictions – or a traitor?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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