The Catholic Church spent more than $1.7 million and ran an unprecedented campaign to defeat Ohio’s abortion amendment – and lost.

Voters who approved Ohio’s Issue 1 Tuesday dealt a blow to Catholic bishops and activists who mounted an unprecedented campaign to stop abortion from becoming a constitutional right in the state.

The church in Ohio spent more than $1.7 million trying to convince voters to reject the amendment. Priests preached about the evils of abortion. Bishops attended fundraisers and recorded videos declaring the amendment “radical” and “extreme.” Catholics went door-to-door, held vigils, passed out glossy flyers and put extra cash in the collection basket.

They still lost by a 14-point margin, 57%-43%.

    • sadreality@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      It is an international child sex traffic organization…

      They should be disband and some clergy jailed along with all of the top brass.

      It is disgusting that “civilized” society thinks these whores can get 69 chances and then still continue to abuse children.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Report ‘em to the IRS. 501c non-profit status is predicated on not stepping out of their lane.

  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    Is the Catholic church the “foreign billionaires with outside influence” who they were talking about?

  • conditional_soup
    5·
    1 year ago

    Isn’t the central guidance of Christianity to emulate Christ?

    When I was a Christian, the only people I took seriously were the people who actually acted like they’d read the New Testament. You could really tell the folks that took Jesus’ message of compassion and caring seriously, and who was just there to participate in the HOA of religiosity. I was the former, so I naturally ended up leaving the church.

  • Halafax@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if they consulted all of the people their priests raped before spending potential settlement money on this?

    Celibate all male priest-hood, yea what an amazing idea. Dipshits. US catholic charities do a better job of actually offering the services that hardline protestant churches don’t bother with, but the catholic church abdicated it’s moral authority on issues like this when it specifically and cynically sacrificed it’s own parishioners to preserve the illusion of a caring and wise church.