WTF?!! Voting For Obama Was A Mortal Sin?!! Was The Pitbull in the Pulpit?

Must Be The Spiritual Adviser of Ann Coulter!

(from AP Nov.13, 3:45PM EST)

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."

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.

As a recovering Catholic, I can tell you that NO ONE - no priest, no bishop, no pope - can ever, ever restrain you from receiving Holy Communion! There is something called "an act of contrition," which, if made sincerely before Communion, allows one to take Holy Communion. The only circumstance (to my knowledge) where you cannot receive communion is if you have been excommunicated by the church.

Using religion for political reasons (like the 1955 article above) is criminal. Clearly this priest couldn't tell his parish how to vote before the election, but decided to zap Obama supporters AFTER the election.

By his letter, Rev. Jay Scott You-Have-Sinned Newman revealed his loathing for Obama. Right-wing rednecks have been mentioning Obama's middle name as a slur against the President-elect (as well as Ann Coulter, but, then again, we all know that rednecks have better taste) Of course, I don't know which single-wide Newman crawled out from under, but his statement was against doctrine, abusive and too provocative: since South Carolina has one of the country's largest ratios of hate groups, it might have been expected from a preacher who matriculated at a store-front Bible school, but not a priest who (supposedly) received extensive education in both a college and a seminary. His screed is divisive and it is racist.

Make no mistake about it, folks, Padre Newman's a gunnin' for Obama!

Just a thought.