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Corrente — My vote for Obama makes me evil! 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 priest in question, Rev. Jay Scott Newman, not only eschews Vatican City’s pet sin, he steers clear of the Beltway’s most unforgivable transgression: “It was not an attempt to ...

Clearing Up Some Separation of Church and State Confusion
Firedoglake — ... and the comments coming out of the Roman Catholic church on abortion, like the story of SC priest, some are calling for stripping these two groups of their 501(c)3 tax exempt status for getting involved in politics. Most of the arguments, however, misunderstand ...

BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 17, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... Karen Webb Moore, Ok Subject: Priests and politics I read this link on BUZZFLASH. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27705755/ and this quote 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."Hey, Secret Service, how's that investigation going into the churches that sent you copies of their sermons for McCain? Read them yet? I'm for ...

Mitchell Bard: It's Time for a War on War on the "War on Christmas"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... I would further argue that the injection of religion into politics has not produced the kind of moral and ethical behavior Henninger longs for. It seems to me that the emergence of an argument that if you oppose the Republican party and support the Democrats, you are somehow not righteous in the eyes of the church, is a pretty dangerous way of thinking. I don't think it's helpful that a South Carolina priest would tell his parishioners that they should not accept Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama. And I don't think the national interest is served by actions like the ...