South Carolina Priest Gets Political

A priest in South Carolina has caused anger within his community for being a colossal prick.

Rev Jay Scott Newman sent a letter to St. Mary's Catholic Church parishioners in Greenville South Carolina, stating that anyone who had voted for Barack Obama should refrain from taking holy communion.

In the letter he told his followers that Barack Hussein Obama (yes he invoked that scary sounding foreign name) was the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the US Senate. He went on to say, "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."

This cretin was later interviewed and told a reporter, "It was not an attempt to make a partisan point." Really?

A catholic spokesperson later stated that his views we way off base and not consistent with the official church stance.

Polls show that 54% of Catholics voted for Obama.

I think this man needs to be fired right away. There is no excuse for pushing politics from the pulpit. And as I've talked about in previous articles, where was this man protesting Bush when he vetoed the law that would have provided health care to poor children? Why the fuck are these religious nut jobs so desperate to condemn abortion, but they don't give a flying fuck about children? It seems so irrational to be pushing for more children to be born, when we are not taking care of them once they are.

As I've also mentioned in the past, this abortion issue is clearly something the public do not want to mess with. Notice how every single state that had a 'pro-life' agenda on the ballot this month had the measures rejected? We the people want the law left alone. The last thing we want is disgusting men like this peddling stupidity to their flock.

Time to do the right thing reverend. Resign, and apologize for your bitter partisan stupidity. You were hired to preach the word of God, not push your idiotic world view onto others.