Priest: No communion for Obama supporters

[BridgeTheGap]

Priest says it's because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion

COLUMBIA, S.C. - A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

"Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president," Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.

"Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27705755/?gt1=43001

[old mark]

1. "Intrinsic evil" = organized religion. nt

[YOY]

2. No eucharist for you!

[groovedaddy]

3. But voting for war mongers and people who trample the poor is okay?

Defrock this guy!

[sshan2525]

4. Having been a recovered Catholic for......

37 of my 52 years on this planet, I can honestly say eschewing organized religion is the smartest single decision that I've ever made. The Catholic Church should spend more time worrying about its clergy buggering actual live children than telling people who or who not to vote for. Pathetic.

[Enthusiast]

9. You said it! Recovering Catholic here, also.

And supporting a candidate that is an advocate for war is somehow better than providing birth control and abortion? Their priorities are skewed.

[NoFederales]

5. Seriously, if these statements are made "on the record", tax exemption

should be forfeited. Get Religion Out of Politics.

NoFederales

[iamahaingttta]

6. I really hope 2/3 of the parish walks out.

Is that even legal?
Is the church risking tax-exempt status by saying that?

[Jamastiene]

7. Who died and made him God?

Other than blatantly preaching from the pulpit, I see tons of wrongs in his entire premise.

1. It is illegal to preach politics from the pulpit.
2. Who died and made him God?
3. and most importantly, he is in no position to be dictating to the rest of us what we should and should not do. Seems to me, those days of the batshit loony brain damaged, right wing thugs will soon be over, THANK GOD.

He needs to ooze back under whatever rock he oozed out from under and finish evolving.

[Stuckinthebush]

8. What's up with these single issue priests?

Jeez....

[VoodooGuru]

10. Exactly why I quit the Church in the first place.

I cannot believe in a god that grants us the powers of free will and reason, yet forbids us to use them.

[struggle4progress]

11. S.C. diocese critical of Greenville priest's Obama comments

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3602501&mesg_id=3602501