Fairfield Priest Ousts Obama Supporter

It looks more and more as if James Dobson, et al, are supplying insanity inducing Kool-Aid to the Roman Catholic Church for consumption by members of the priesthood. While the priest I mentioned yesterday in South Carolina was telling Obama supporters to avoid receiving communion because of their vote for Obama, now in Fairfield, Connecticut, they are physically chasing them from the churches. As I have said before, the Christianists and their allied religious fanatics are a clear and present danger to democracy in the USA. One can only hope that under Obama and the Democrat Congress steps are taken to remove religion from government policy and reverse the insanity that occurred under the Chimperator. Here are some highlights fro CBS5.com:

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FAIRFIELD (CBS) ― A Fairfield woman is accusing a priest of chasing her out of Sunday services because of her political beliefs. The woman said she was singled out for supporting President-elect Barack Obama.Elizabeth Caster was exited over Obama's election and painted messages in support of Obama on her SUV, which she drove to Mass at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church on Sunday. Caster and her little boy were in the front pew Sunday, when she said the priest got on the microphone demanding the driver of the SUV to move it.

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"He said you cannot park any place here, you have to go. He said you have to go and he said you cannot have a car with an Obama sign parked in there," she said. "I waited to confront the priest," says Joe Caster, Elizabeth's husband. Her husband never caught up with Rev. Sebastian Meyer to ask why, but he's convinced he already knows the answer."It's a combination of race and politics," Caster said.

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CBS could not find Meyer to get his side of the story on Thursday, but a reporter for the Vacaville Reporter tried on Wednesday, and claimed the priest physically and verbally attacked the reporter. He claims the priest even clawed at his arm to get his notepad. The reporter has since filed a police report and the story ended up on the front page of the newspaper.

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Meanwhile, rational and sane gays are not welcome in the Catholic priesthood. I expect that until the Church lifts the ban on women and gay clergy, we will see more and more fruitcakes at the pulpit in Catholic churches. (H/T to Bob Felton at Civil Commotion)