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Title: Catholics to hell...no communion for Obama supporters
Post by: WhiskeyGirl on November 13, 2008, 07:23:28 PM
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SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters

By MEG KINNARD (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
November 13, 2008 6:33 PM 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."

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"It was not an attempt to make a partisan point," Newman said in a telephone interview Thursday. "In fact, in this election, for the sake of argument, if the Republican candidate had been pro-abortion, and the Democratic candidate had been pro-life, everything that I wrote would have been exactly the same."

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http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20081113/491bb450_3421_1334520081113-1062523546 (http://enews.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20081113/491bb450_3421_1334520081113-1062523546)