Pastor: If You Voted for Obama, You Sinned
By Jesse Singal - Nov 14th, 2008 at 10:45 amFrom a Boston Globe religion blog:
The pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Greenville, SC, is urging parishioners who voted for Barack Obama not to present themselves for Communion unless they go to confession first because they have cooperated with “intrinsic evil” by voting for a candidate who supports abortion rights over a candidate who does not. The Rev. Jay Scott Newman told the Greenville News that he doesn’t intend to deny anyone Communion, but made it clear that his view is that Obama voters should not present themselves without seeking penance first “lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.”
We see this every four years, and I’m always amazed by the ability of certain religious figures to put on the blinders and ignore every other issues, focusing with laserlike intensity on abortion and only abortion.
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