elections.foxnews.com - 11/17/2008
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A Roman Catholic priest in South Carolina is being reined in by his own diocese for saying parishioners who voted for Barack Obama should not seek communion until they have repented.
news.yahoo.com - 11/13/2008
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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 ...
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SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters - Yahoo! News
msnbc.msn.com - 11/14/2008
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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.
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Priest: No communion for Obama voters
breitbart.com - 11/14/2008
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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 ...
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SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters
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Press Coverage of SC Priest's 'Repudiation' Ignores Superior's Earlier Support, Clever Dodges in Official Letter
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... other priests of the Charleston diocese had already indicated their support for Father Newman. On November 12, for example, Father Newman received this message:
Thank you for your statement. I wish the bishops would have been as forthright. Why did they not speak before the election?
That email message was sent to Father Newman by... are you ready?... Msgr. Laughlin.
Totally oblivious to all of this (or perhaps pretending to be), Fox News's James Abrams and the Associated Press's Meg Kinnard reported yesterday that, ...
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