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.
I repeat... WTF?!?!
"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."
The full msn article can be found here.
HOW DARE HE!!! How dare he manipulate and use God for his own beliefs. How dare he try to be the gatekeeper to God. Is he worried about the Catholic Church running out of little boys for its pedophile priestS!!!! Are we living in the middle ages? Will this priest next burn people alive at the stake? HOW DARE HE!!
I'm fumming so much I can't even get a clear sentence out. Maybe this priest needs to have a heart attack and be taken to the hospital only to have the doctor refuse to treat him because he voted republican. Would he get the point?
Somebody needs to get this asshole outta there. The church is still trying to recover from all the pedophile charges against ITS priests... now this. This is exactly why church and state should be kept separate. This person is just an example of the kind of manipulation of the bible people have made over centuries. I'm just agast!!
