Bishop refusing holy, sacred rite of cannibalism for pro-choice myth-believers

No communion for any Catholic voting for a candidate who supports...well, pretty much the rights of people to decide what is best for them.

DENVER — In stark and dramatic language, a Roman Catholic bishop has declared that anyone voting for a politician who supports same-sex marriage, abortion rights, stem-cell research or euthanasia will be denied Holy Communion.

The upcoming presidential election, Bishop Michael Sheridan said in a three-page letter to the Colorado Springs diocese's newspaper May 1, will be one of the most important in history — "critical in the battle to restore the right to life to all its citizens, especially the unborn and the elderly and infirm."

The unborn are citizens now? Really. And I'd say that if we really wanted to give rights to the elderly and infirm, we'd let them decide how and when they wanted to die. Let them have their dignity.

"Any Catholic politicians who advocate for abortion, for illicit stem-cell research or any form of euthanasia ipso facto place themselves outside of full Communion with the church and so jeopardize their salvation," Sheridan wrote. "Any Catholics who vote for candidates that stand for abortion, illicit stem-cell research or euthanasia suffer the same fateful consequences."

Boo! Hellfire! Brimstone! Scared yet by our mythological imagery? No? Hmm... This used to work so well, back in the dark ages.

The letter said nothing about capital punishment, but Sheridan in the past has said the death penalty was not as weighty as other issues.

Typical.

"It's very offensive to find a bishop pushing that kind of perspective and threatening members of his own diocese," said Mary Lou Makepeace, a former Colorado Springs mayor who now heads the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado. "I'd like an equally strong stance against priests who abuse children, who, so far as I know, still take Communion."

Yeah! But, apparently, terminating a pregnancy -- for any reason -- is much worse than raping an actual human child.