Catholic Bishops stance on abortion

Hi

Today I heard that the Roman Catholic Bishop of Rhode Island issued a statement in which he said that Congressman Kennedy should not receive the Catholic sacrament of communion. This is a valid decision for the bishop to make, it fits directly into his job description.

Before I go further please let me explain myself, I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state. Our forefathers put this into our constitution for a good reason. While we are basically a Christian nation, we as Americans do not want any government agency to infringe upon the religious beliefs of others. Christian leaders are excluded from making civil laws. Good.

The problem comes in when the constitution is interpreted by liberal judges who would write the law so as to create non existent rights, and to prevent the people from exercising their right to obey the rules of the church of their choosing. This leads to politically correct nonsense which causes resentment and ill will. But that is to be expected when activist judges use the bench to make law.

The case of the Catholic bishop is not one of making law, but, rather one of enforcing church law. The statement does not say that catholic legislators must vote to stop abortion. The heart of the statement says that if the legislators choose to continue to champion abortion rights, then, under those conditions the legislator will be excluded from the Catholic church. This is certainly within the scope of the church.

I think it is about time that the bishops got tough with the so called catholic legislators, hooray for the Bishop of Rhode Island.

Now let us use our constitutional rights to practice religion as we see fit, and pray for our service people.
GOD Bless