for the parishoners who voted for Obama and he gave the reasons for it. The pastor, I think is speaking the truth here, yet, with this he is going to get castigated by the liberal left in this country. This South Carolina Priest has done this, and I applaud his guts, because he is going to need them with this.
Here is some of the article as seen on the site for Breitbart.com:
SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters
Nov 13 06:59 PM US/Eastern
By MEG KINNARD
Associated Press Writer
‘Intrinsic Evil’: South Carolina Priest Says No Communion for Obama Voters
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - 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.”
This man is talking about the rules of the Catholic church and the rules of taking Communion. These are rules that are there for the way that communion is to be administered. These rules are not to change. Just because man’s laws change, doesn’t mean that God’s laws have too, and they don’t. We go one from there:
According to national exit polls, 54 percent of Catholics chose Obama, who is Protestant. In South Carolina, which McCain carried, voters in Greenville County—traditionally seen as among the state’s most conservative areas—went 61 percent for the Republican, and 37 percent for Obama.
“It was not an attempt to make a partisan point,” Newman said in a telephone interview Thursday. “In fact, in this election, for the sake of argument, if the Republican candidate had been pro-abortion, and the Democratic candidate had been pro-life, everything that I wrote would have been exactly the same.”
Conservative Catholics criticized Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in 2004 for supporting abortion rights, with a few Catholic bishops saying Kerry should refrain from receiving Holy Communion because his views were contrary to church teachings.
The problem that I have been spouting off about here is this crap about partisanship. It is getting so bad that it now is going into the realm of religion. And even if you are an agnostic or an atheist, I am sure that you have your beliefs that you do not want changed because someone comes along and figures your not partisan enough. This whole rigamarole of being not partisan enough or too partisan is one of the things that is destroying the fabric of this country. According to the liberals, we have to be bi-partisan, so that their ideas are involved, unless, they are fully in charge like they are now.
They will, for a while, try to make us think that they are looking for ideas from the Republican party, but after they get what they want in the power mode, they will no longer wish for bi-partisanship, and they will want to do everything alone. With no help from any other party. That is when this country is going to feel the bad times coming, and the people who voted for Obama to be in the White House will realize that they have not done the country any service by electing him.
Now, I am not saying that having a black man or a woman for president is a bad thing. It isn’t. But, just like you can have a bad white person in the white house, you CAN have a bad black person in the white house, and Obama with his lack of experience I feel history will not be good too. This is going to be a presidency that will hurt the United States in ways that will take generations to repair. And we are still waiting to see if the people have come to their senses and keeps the democrats from having the 60 seat majority that will keep anything from stopping them in the things they wish to do to this country. I am still praying that the people realize where their senses are and they get them back…..
God Bless America
God Bless our troops
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-Robert-
won’t be any worse than Bush,
at least he’s picking people who are qualified for the jobs and not just friends, example the former head of fema who had no idea how to manage that, but was fantastic with the horses
By: shea on November 17, 2008
at 11:56 pm
Oh really? During about 88% of the Bush presidency, we have had a thriving economy, low unemployment, and low inflation. Not to mention the fact that several attempts to attack the United States has been thwarted. I think that is pretty good. You people who hate Bush have blinders on. You can’t see when things have been good. During the whole Bush presidency, we have had all these things that spell out a great economy, yet during the whole time, the media and the democrats in office screamed that the economy was bad. Well, the democrats finally get what they want……but they will NOT get a better economy…..nor will we be safer, or have lower taxes, or have lower unemployment…….and the list will go on and on. History will not be good to America’s first mulatto president, it will be good to Bush.
Obama campaigned change during his whole campaign, yet, he is putting in the people that are from the Corrupt Chicago machine, and Clinton chronies that will cause more trouble that help. Better? I think not.
-Robert-
By: elwoodin on November 18, 2008
at 3:35 am
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By: Matthew on January 7, 2009
at 6:43 am