Mashek of US News: Bishop Violates First Amendment by Denying Biden Communion

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[Mad Dawg]

Here’s what keeps me up late at night: Do you think a Unitarian pastor would be defrocked (they’d take away his Subaru) if he was anti-abortion?

[Scotswife]

LOL!!

Good question!
you must not get very much sleep?

[Mad Dawg]

If Biden goes to communion without having properly prepared himself through acts of contrition or confession, humbly asking forgiveness, his communion with Christ is meaningless.

It's worse than meaningless. It's a mortal sin. The boy is in serious compost.

[Tax-chick]

anything is possible when dealing with liberals

We shouldn't be surprised at anything evil or idiotic perpetrated by liberals ... but sometimes I am, anyway. How do they keep breathing with so little brain function?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

If Biden can’t see that it is more important for him to get right with the Lord and his faith than to serve as VP under Obama, God help him.

[Tax-chick]

It seems like it’s always one or the other or both, doesn’t it?

[Tax-chick]

Do you think a Unitarian pastor would be defrocked (they’d take away his Subaru) if he was anti-abortion?

Interesting question. Maybe his congregation would do a crystal-harmonics intervention for the poor fellow, get him back on the right path.

[pgkdan]

What a MORON!!!!

[pgkdan]

Biden, like 14 other Democrats in the Senate, is both pro-choice and Catholic.

impossible.

[Verginius Rufus]

If Mashek was right, Biden could enlist the government's help to force the bishop to let him receive communion. If that were the case, the government force the Catholic Church (or any other religious body) to comply with any other directive the majority in Congress, or an activist judge, wanted to impose--like requiring the ordination of women. During Prohibition the government could have banned the use of wine at Mass.

Biden is part of the government. If the church has to cater to him, then the "free exercise of religion" is as meaningless in the US as in China or Cuba.

[Tax-chick]

You’re exactly right.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the pings.

Great article. F a s c i n a t i n g thread.

[A.A. Cunningham]

MORON

[RabidBartender]

If it weren’t for dentist and doctor waiting rooms, airliners, and public libraries, I am certain that Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News would be out of business.

[cpforlife.org]

Pro-Life PING

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[A.A. Cunningham]

He cannot support abortion in any capacity

Correction: He cannot support direct abortion in any capacity

142. Ethical delegitimization applies to all forms of direct abortion, since it is an intrinsically blameworthy act. The use of substances or means which impede the implantation of the fertilized embryo or which cause its premature detachment is also an act of abortion. A doctor who would knowingly prescribe or apply such substances or means would cooperate in the abortion.

If the abortion follows as a foreseen but nor intended or willed but merely tolerated consequence of a therapeutic act essential for the mother's health, this is morally legitimate. The abortion in this case is the indirect result of an act which is not in itself abortive.273

[3Lean]

You’ll never get to be a liberal Supreme Court Justice with that kind of limited vision :)

[philman_36]

And by the way, Governs = Finkelstein.
I feel so "late to the show". {;^)

[Scotswife]

“It seems like it’s always one or the other or both, doesn’t it?”

Too true!!

And they get more worked up over living wage/Walmart/sweatshops/South America -than they do over dead babies.

I’m getting so fed up with crazy nuts.
I must be getting old.

[Tax-chick]

I’m getting so fed up with crazy nuts. I must be getting old.

That makes two of us.