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South Carolina Priest Refusing Communion for Obama Voters
Why does this church get a tax exemption?
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.
“Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.”
Yet another example of religion being used to threaten and intimidate voters.
Honoring Sarah Palin
My friend Bobby had this great idea for showing the McCain campaign what we think about Sarah Palin’s stance on women’s issues by donating to Planned Parenthood in her honor:
Hey people! I found this idea online and I think it’s fantastic. I urge all of you to do it, because maverick Sarah’s worth it:
Are you as sick to your stomach as I am at the thought of Sarah Palin as Vice President (or President!) of the United States?
Don’t you just love Sarah’s stances on women’s issues? She’s against choice (even in cases of incest and rape) and even charged women in her town for their own rape examinations. That’s just classy.
Make a $5 minimum donation to Planned Parenthood. In honor of Sarah Palin. A Planned Parenthood donation is tax deductible, while a political donation isn’t.
And here’s the good part: when you make a donation to PP for her, they’ll send her a card telling her that the donation has been made in her honor!
Here’s the link to the Planned Parenthood website. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
[Click here to go to the "honorary donation" page.]You’ll need to fill in the address to let PP know where to send the ‘in Sarah Palin’s honor’ card. Use the address for the McCain campaign headquarters:
McCain for President/Sarah Palin
1235 S. Clark Street
1st Floor
Arlington, VA 22202Plus, Planned Parenthood is a really great organization that does a lot more than abortions (they do STD testing & prevention, give out contraceptives, prenatal care, counseling, etc) , so the donation is definitely going towards a worthy cause.
Government is a Man’s Job
Earlier this month, Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand announced that she was pregnant. No scandal here–the Congresswoman and her husband decided to have a child–until one constituent (probably a strong supporter of family values) wrote a letter to the editor (scroll down the page) arguing that this pregnancy was just one more example of why women can’t serve in the U.S. Congress.
Naturally, this letter prompted some responses from the sane part of the world. Feministing’s Jessica Valenti responded by sarcastically asking if male politicians should similarly “reimburse their daily salaries when they have to go to get prostate exams or prescriptions for their Viagra.” FundieWatch has a sentence-by-sentence breakdown of the letter, and Jesse Wendel from GroupNewsBlog responded with a letter of his own.
It’s one thing when there’s just one self-described “male chauvinist” spouting off crap to the editor of his local newspaper. But what about when the crap is being spewed by a major presidential candidate?
Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson on Wednesday teased Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying “there is no woman on the horizon that ought to be president next year.”
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Thompson continued to refer to the next president as a man who should represent conservative principles and values, and should be examined “by what he believes and by where he’s been and what he’s done.”
Thompson claims he’s not opposed to a female president since “I’ve got a daughter that’s going to be president some day,” but I have a hard time believing him. The entire purpose of his speech is to single out Clinton as a woman and, therefore, unqualified for the presidency. Moreover, he’s trying to win the hearts and minds of fundamentalist Christians who believe that a woman’s place is, according to the Bible, in the kitchen. He strongly believes that a woman can be president, except she will be unqualified because she’s a woman. Or maybe he’s saying that women just aren’t ready to be president yet. Maybe women still have to do something (grow a penis?) before Thompson will consider them ready for the high office of President of the United States.
So my question for Mr. Thompson is: when will it be a good time for a woman to be president?