No communion for Obama supporters

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Originally Posted by aephi alum

Oh for crying out loud.

It's crap like this that drove me away from the Catholic Church 15 years ago. The Church tries to dictate its members' choices - which is fine and dandy if you happen to agree with Church doctrine, and not so pleasant if you don't. No premarital sex, no birth control, no abortion, no homosexuality (yet somehow it's ok for priests to bugger altar boys), and no voting for any candidate who supports abortion rights or anything else the Church doesn't like.

As someone who was raised Catholic, you were making a lot of sense... until you got to the part with the priests. I don't know anyone, clergy or lay, Catholic or not, who would approve of that. I think you know that people don't think it's "ok for priests to bugger altar boys" any more than people think it's "ok for teachers to molest their students." You were coming across as reasonable before you made that generalization.

Originally Posted by aephi alum

Also, I thought clergy weren't supposed to dictate to their congregants how they should vote? If they do, they risk losing their tax-exempt status.

An interesting point.