SOUTH CAROLINA PRIEST: No communion for Obama supporters.
The story ran in our local paper. 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 he supports abortion and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”
The Catholic Church, as well as other churches, has been very active in the last election. I mentioned proposal 2 (stem cell research) here in Michigan and how the church spent millions fighting the proposal in a underhanded, even downright dirty lying, way. The proposal passed anyway with a majority of Catholics voting for it despite priestly harangues against it at Sunday Mass.
A follow-up article mentioned that protesters outside this church were split into those who said the priest was anti-American for using religion to affect how people vote and then the ever present fetus worshipers praising the priest for his bold action against a person advocating personal “choice” when it comes to abortion.
Our Constitution spells out a legal separation of Church and State where the U.S. Government is prohibited from meddling in religion(s) in any way. The Constitution does not mention if Churches can meddle in the government. An IRS law does say that tax-free institutions cannot campaign for a specific candidate or they will lose their tax-free status. Just this year, several churches tested that law by specifically endorsing McCain against Obama. They are being sued by a number of institutions including Americans United for Separation of Church & State of which I am a big supporter. We shall see how the courts handle this.
The various churches that want to be involved in politics, state that politics or political candidates and political actions are an integral part of their religious practice so they are bound by their religion to engage in politics.
The Catholic Church, as an example, is hell bent on defeating any law or any candidate that allows for abortions; it is their religious duty to act. Of course they don’t feel as strongly about being a haven for pedophiles and doing something to protect children from their perverted priests.
The law states that individual priests and ministers can be politically active but not when they are representing the Church (at the pulpit). I really don’t know if you can realistically prohibit churches from meddling in politics and I am not sure if the government should, after all, they have been meddling in politics throughout history.
Lets look at the Catholic Church prohibiting accepting Communion (Eucharist) to Catholics that go against Church teachings; this will absolutely come up again because Vice President Biden is a staunch Catholic that supports “choice” when it comes to abortions.
More on the flip side…
The story ran in our local paper. 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 he supports abortion and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”
The Catholic Church, as well as other churches, has been very active in the last election. I mentioned proposal 2 (stem cell research) here in Michigan and how the church spent millions fighting the proposal in a underhanded, even downright dirty lying, way. The proposal passed anyway with a majority of Catholics voting for it despite priestly harangues against it at Sunday Mass.
A follow-up article mentioned that protesters outside this church were split into those who said the priest was anti-American for using religion to affect how people vote and then the ever present fetus worshipers praising the priest for his bold action against a person advocating personal “choice” when it comes to abortion.
Our Constitution spells out a legal separation of Church and State where the U.S. Government is prohibited from meddling in religion(s) in any way. The Constitution does not mention if Churches can meddle in the government. An IRS law does say that tax-free institutions cannot campaign for a specific candidate or they will lose their tax-free status. Just this year, several churches tested that law by specifically endorsing McCain against Obama. They are being sued by a number of institutions including Americans United for Separation of Church & State of which I am a big supporter. We shall see how the courts handle this.
The various churches that want to be involved in politics, state that politics or political candidates and political actions are an integral part of their religious practice so they are bound by their religion to engage in politics.
The Catholic Church, as an example, is hell bent on defeating any law or any candidate that allows for abortions; it is their religious duty to act. Of course they don’t feel as strongly about being a haven for pedophiles and doing something to protect children from their perverted priests.
The law states that individual priests and ministers can be politically active but not when they are representing the Church (at the pulpit). I really don’t know if you can realistically prohibit churches from meddling in politics and I am not sure if the government should, after all, they have been meddling in politics throughout history.
Lets look at the Catholic Church prohibiting accepting Communion (Eucharist) to Catholics that go against Church teachings; this will absolutely come up again because Vice President Biden is a staunch Catholic that supports “choice” when it comes to abortions.
More on the flip side…
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