[zbigreddogz]

Any chance that he's gonna get excommunicated?

I don't actually think that would be good from a religious standpoint, I believe it's more important to be inclusive and let God sort out the rest, but it would be great from an election point of view.

[sweetliberty]

"but it would be great from an election point of view."

Oh, just like it was so bad for Clinton when he was asked not to associate hiomself with the Southern Baptist church. These RATs don't care. To them, God is just a convenient campaign tool.

[ought-six]

He's been de facto excommunicated already, given his staunch pro-abortion position. According to Catholic doctrine, he has rejected Catholicism by being in favor of abortion. Thus, unless he seeks Penance and Reconciliation, he is not accepted as a member of the Church, and he CANNOT receive the sacrament of the Eucharist. If he does take communion, knowing that his pro-abortion stance is anathema to the Church, he not only compounds his sin but ridicules the Eucharist, which is blasphemy.

[ArrogantBustard]

I don't actually think that would be good from a religious standpoint, I believe it's more important to be inclusive and let God sort out the rest,

The purpose of a public excommunication is to remind a public, flagrant, and unrepentant sinner that he is, in fact, publicly, flagrantly, and unrepentantly sinning. It is hoped that by excommunicating him he will be called to repentance (excommunication can be lifted), and that the faithful (and the unfaithful as well) will not be scandalized by his behaviour. Mr. Kerry's behaviour is certainly causing public scandal.

[GraceCoolidge]

I don't actually think that would be good from a religious standpoint, I believe it's more important to be inclusive and let God sort out the rest, but it would be great from an election point of view.

Then why have any standards in a faith at all? If church should just be "inclusive," then why speak out against any conduct... adultery, racism, abortion, homosexuality, anything? I am sure there are faiths that adopt this point of view, but I think it is up to people who believe in that approach to seek out and embrace those faith(s). Kerry should stop proclaiming himself a Catholic and find a faith consistent with his own views. Saying he's a Catholic and defying the most basic tenets of the church shows the standard John Kerry mixture of hypocrisy and arrogance.