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Originally Posted by Drolefille
I don't know that I see it as hypocrisy unless they're actively professing the opposite of what they're doing. Sort of back to the 'why would you confess a sin if you didn't think it was a sin' thing.
The implication within your last paragraph though is that Catholicism is more about the social mores than the belief in Jesus and the sacraments. In my mind, those should take priority and it shouldn't be all or nothing. My voting for a politician who is pro-choice, whether it is because s/he is pro-choice or not, shouldn't be a determining factor in my religious identity. I think people can have their actions/votes/etc informed by their faith and come to different conclusions.
A person who thinks that abortion should be legal because otherwise more women die, who think that gay marriage should be legal, and supports birth control while encouraging sex to take place only in a committed loving relationship AND believes in the full Nicene creed from beginning to end, the just war theory and the other teaching of the Church... they really have no place to go. There's no United Liberal Catholic Church (pick name here) under the authority of Rome.
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They have somewhere to go...an ELCA Lutheran Church. They could come every Sunday and we'd (the congregations I've been involved with) never ask them to convert, be rebaptized, reconfirmed, or anything else. They could call themsevles Catholics Affiliated With Lutherans, or something like that. I know quite a few Catholics who spend Sundays with ELCAs Lutherans because they want a home and a relationship with God, but don't feel as if they fit in anywhere else without religious pressure to convert.