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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
The question is, were his actions justified (within the context of his postion and responsiblities - including his duties to warn his parishoners of endangering their immortal souls) ? Did they possibly break current tax law? As I asked before, how do his parishoners and higher up think of his actions? When it is all said and done, he answers to a higher authority. You will leave judgement of your actions up to Jesus, but will not extend the same courtesy to this priest.
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Like I said above, it is not "splitting semantic hairs" if I am being held to assertions that I never made. The claim is that I hold others to standards that I have injected my own standards into. Well, the two of you keep twisting my words out of context then trying to hold me to them. What is that supposed to be called?
No, I don't feel that they were justified at all and one reason is the one that DolphinChica stated (which, admittedly, is a scenario that came to mind long ago but I never got around to posing it in between explaining myself on every other issue). Some people (myself included) voted for Obama without supporting each and every one of his issues. Say a member of the Catholic church voted like that: Do they deserve to be denied Communion even though they are pro-life themselves? No,
in my opinion, they don't. I don't like that action nor do I agree with the premise behind it (their not being in a "state of grace"). I'm not saying that the RCC should revamp its doctrine and re-evaluate what it puts emphasis on. I don't "demand" that this priest change his tactics. I'm just saying that I disapprove and THAT'S IT. Please, take it at face value. I don't have anything against either of you, but I don't like the way you've made all of this to be about how I can't stay on topic, how I'm demanding everyone to be on my wavelength when that's simply not true. If you felt that my answers weren't what you were looking for, you could've said that without claiming I am being "unchristian" and "unloving" (which
can be taken as just as much of a judgement as you claim I have made). That's really all I've got to say on the matter, if my intentions aren't clear by now then they won't be tomorrow. Let us agree to disagree unless there is something else you would like me to know.
ETA: In reading that last bit again, it looks really sarcastic and I wanted to input that that's not how I meant it. I genuinely mean that, unless you really have something else to add, I'd like to just let it drop.