GodWatch: Catholics Say Voting For Obama Was A Sin

Catholics continue their "Voting Obama = Sin" campaign:

A Roman Catholic priest has told parishioners they should confess if they voted for Barack Obama because the president-elect supports abortion.

The Rev. Joseph Illo says his parishioners at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Modesto shouldn't risk losing their "state of grace" by receiving communion sacrilegiously. He delivered the message in a Nov. 21 letter and during mass.

In an interview this week with the Modesto Bee, Illo says he sent the letter because Catholic teaching requires that people go to confession when they commit a mortal sin.

Once again for clarity, the Catholic church is saying that by voting for Obama, you are a sinner. As in you are going to hell lest ye confess your sin.

I wonder which trumps when a fundamental human right (voting) comes into conflict with a religious prohibition (vote how the church tells you)?

Lookin' good, Catholic church.

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Comments

[fordprefectajt]

Now, now. Catholics have freedom of choice. They can either follow everything the Church says, or they can burn for eternity. Or, until the Church decides that Hell should go the way of Limbo. Some choice.

[Anthony Fantano]

Pro-abortion? Is anybody really pro-abortion? It's like he's saying Obama is just going to start recommending Americans get abortions.

[stevo]

Time for this dumbass Illo to retire, or it's time for the region of the Catholic church that he presides over to start paying taxes. It's that simple.
I'd like to see how he justifies this over the Catholic church's opposition to the Iraq war or to capital punishment, or for that matter of spreading the wealth around.
This guy is throwing a public temper tantrum, and it's time for him to get spanked.