[wideawake]

If you give someone the host, it becomes their personal property; THEY get to decide what to do with it.

A person is given the host contingent upon an understanding of terms. By not agreeing to those terms, the host is being appropriated under false pretenses by Myers types, and this constitutes fraud and theft.

Here's an analogy: a man goes to a free clinic complaining of horrible pain and is given morphine to ease his suffering. In reality, he is a recreational drug abuser who has lied in order to score some free morphine.

The latter individual is clearly a criminal. If the free clinic pressed charges - and if the free clinic was operated by the Catholic Church - would the decision to press charges constitute a theocratic act?

[DManA]

Let me add this is not exclusively a Catholic issue. Even in Churches that don't believe transubstantiation consider the Eucharist as a potent symbol of their faith. A baptist would no sooner treat a communion wafer disrespectfully then they would play hockey with a cross.