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==Knowingly==

==Knowingly==

If you are a ''Catholic for'' Obama supporter that knew the candidates' abortion position and still voted Obama, you are required to abstain from the Eucharist and go to confession. <ref name="Yahoo">[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/obama_catholics_3 No communion for Obama supporters] AP, November 13, 2008</ref>

If you are a Catholic for Obama supporter that knew the candidates' abortion position and still voted Obama, you are required to abstain from the Eucharist and go to confession. <ref name="Yahoo">[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/obama_catholics_3 No communion for Obama supporters] AP, November 13, 2008</ref>

In a letter distributed to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in [[South Carolina]], the Rev. Jay Scott Newman said supporting him [Obama] "Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists, constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil." In addition, "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."

In a letter distributed to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in [[South Carolina]], the Rev. Jay Scott Newman said supporting him [Obama] "Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists, constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil." In addition, "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."

==Stats==

==Stats==

54 percent of Catholics voted Obama in 2008 <ref>[http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=367 How the Faithful Voted] The Pew Forum, Nov. 10, 2008</ref>

54 percent of Catholics voted Obama in 2008 <ref>[http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=367 How the Faithful Voted] The Pew Forum, Nov. 10, 2008</ref>

==References==

==References==

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