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Evangelicals are Protestant so they don't really care about Roman Catholic doctrine. Even though they agree on many issues it doesn't mean the Pope would change

• klyrs 6y ago
  I think you misread me. Barrett is Catholic, and has strong support from Evangelicals at this point: until now the religions are aligned on gay marriage and abortion. If they perceive a shift in how she is expected to rule on cases, will their support falter?
  • dragonwriter 6y ago
    > Barrett is Catholic, and has strong support from Evangelicals at this point: until now the religions are aligned on gay marriage and abortion. The activist politically conservative segment of the Catholic faithful tends to be in line with the political right and out of line with the Church heirarchy on a number of policy issues (just different issues than the activist left within the Church is, naturally), the heirarchy moving in a leftward direction on an issue where they were previously in line just adds one issue to that list, it doesn't move the position of conservative Catholic activists like Barret. Not in the short-term, and probably not much in the long term, except insofar as it increases the likelihood of such activists separating from the Church altogether (though, of course, from the PoV of such activists it will be the earthly heirarchy separating itself from the genuine Church), and thus no longer being regarded as Catholic conservatives.