[ikka]

OK, I agree it is offensive. However, to some other religions the eating of cows is offensive; so should eBay ban meat slicers too?

It is horrendous, yet, be sure that God Himself will deal with them in his own time.

[narses]

Ebay bans the sale of the sacramental undergarments of the Mormons. They have banned the sale of items offensive to Islam. Is the most SACRED Sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church - one FIFTH of humanity - to be denigrated while other faiths venerated? Is that what you support?

[Thrusher]

We as Catholics have a right to speak out and condemn the desecration of our holy symbols for fun and profit -- that whole freedom of religion thing in the Constitution does actually apply to Catholics and Christians, although few people seem to recognize that anymore.

The consecrated Eucharist is, under Catholic doctrine (and, I would assert, by the Word of Jesus Christ Himself), the actual Body of Christ. eBay is aiding in the defilement of something we consider supremely holy.

People who believe cows, trees, or facial piercings are holy have a right to speak out on that too, and condemn corporations when they think their religious rights have been violated. Again, the whole freedom of religion thing.

As Catholics, I would argue we have a moral duty to condemn it and to use all legal and socially acceptable means to stop it.

The more difficult question is, should we (Catholics) try to get laws passed to forbid it? Politically, I say no, nadda, nil, never... but theologically it may be a harder question.