Catechismically Wrong

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."

According to Rev. Jay Scott Newman, "Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits 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."

Before we go any further, the Daily Dude would like to ask if the Church ever withheld holy communion from priests that sexually abused little boys-- you know, those who actually committed a mortal sin? Yeah, I thought so.