Here's Your Wafer. Oh, Did You Vote For Obama?

Leave it to the uber-religious in America to find a way to not only disagree with the newly elected President, but essentially try and push people out of their own church.

The following in a portion of the "Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome" by Father Newman of Saint Mary's Catholic Church in South Carolina:

...Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.

While one of tennants of organized religion is to use fear as a motivator, it should be pointed out that no one is "pro" abortion - and that certainly goes for Barack Obama.

Father Newman has to instruct his congregation within these terms of "pro" and "anti" in order for his message to have even the semblance of validity, it should be pointed out that it is a "choice" issue. Does Father Newman believe that he knows the true nature of God to such an extent that he feels comfortable in informing his congregation that God sees America as Blue state and Red states as well?

When a reglious group, such as the Catholic Church, is willing to turn it's back on people who vote for Obama, to deny them the comfort of communion, you're not so much a "religion" as you are a "cult".

While I have always been fascinated by the workings of the Catholic Church, I'm wondering if this isn't just an isolated instance. I'm sure somewhere Bill Donahue is flailing around in an arm-chair getting ready to defend this ass-hat of a priest to whomever will listen to him.