Telling no. Consider it a suggestion that's all.
Centurion2000: If you give someone the host, it becomes their personal property; THEY get to decide what to do with it….If Catholics want to make this large of a deal about this then why not take measures to stop someone from doing it? Like having the priest place the host in the petitioner's mouth?OpusatFR : Remind me not to let you put your hands on The Torah.
It seems to me the host is given for a specific purpose, at a specific place and time, removing it for desecration not being the specific purpose. I don’t know the legal aspects, I’d hate to see the Catholic Church issue terms of possession prior to services or posted on the walls. Anyone with common sense knows the circumstances, nor is it their responsibility to have security to prevent desecration as in this incident or the SF gay nun incident. Unfortunately it could become a necessity the the Myers of the world have their way.
There’s nothing un-conservative about condemning a jerk like Myers. Or asking for his dismissal if he’s using his position with the University to promote his views.
OpusatFR brings up a similar situation. Whenever read the Torah is presented to the Congregation, but walking through the aisles, congregants touching it with a prayer book (which stays in the Synagogue and can’t be used for coloring even if a Myers type thinks it’s nonsense) or tallit, which is kissed. If some jerk takes the opportunity of desecrating the Torah while in it’s proximity, are you suggesting my Synagogue should have additional security, there’s always security at services for other reasons, to prevent that? And if not, somehow to be counted as a conservative I have to tolerate his act as one of ignorance or allowable contempt? No thanks.