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To: DMaA who wrote (747618)	6/23/2021 9:39:06 AM
From: alanrs	Respond to of 793622

My understanding is that the onus is on him if he takes communion in a state of sin and so on. But if one doesn't believe in sin, particularly, or some of the other pick and choose items on the Catholic menu, then what is the point anyway? Theater. How I look is what matters, not who I am. Reminds me of a bird I heard about, disguises it's eggs or something like that, tricks another into doing its work.

To: DMaA who wrote (747618)	6/23/2021 10:31:34 AM
From: Stan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

He's daring them on moral grounds, meaning he'd call them out for applying the sanction with partiality (which they can't do if true). Nonetheless Rep. Lieu should abstain from Communion because, again, his faith would tell him not to "pluck specks from another's eye when there's a beam in his own." In Fort Worth on Saturday, the Rev. Jim Gigliotti drafted a letter to Representative Ted Lieu, a Catholic Democrat from California, writing “your very soul is in jeopardy” and informing him that he would be refused Communion if he happened to attend Mass at Mr. Gigliotti’s parish. “Confrontation is a ministry of caring,” Father Gigliotti said. Mr. Lieu, in a series of tweets after the bishops’ vote, had called them “ hypocrites” for not instructing former attorney general William P. Barr to abstain from the Eucharist because of his employment of the death penalty when he served under Mr. Trump. Mr. Lieu dared the bishops to deny him Communion, pointing out that he supports contraception, the right to same-sex marriage and “a woman’s right to choose,” which are all violations of Catholic teaching. nationalreview.com