Greenville County, SC

“Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance”

In a move that harkens back to the Middle Ages when non-followers were burnt at the stake, Rev. Jay Scott Newman of St. Mary’s Catholic Church here in Greenville issued a letter to his parishioners stating that Obama supporters are putting their souls at risk for supporting him for Presidency.

In this most conservative area of the state, there are plenty around here who feel the same way, but Steve Krueger, national director of Catholic Democrats, says “Father Newman is off base. He is acting beyond the authority of a parish priest to say what he did.”

What would Jesus do? I’m pretty sure he’d take a different tack with his followers.

Here is a video statement from Msgr Martin T. Laughlin, Administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Charleston on Voting and Holy Communion.

* Update: In an apparent disciplinary move, Rev. Newman is now saying that all future comments will be coming from South Carolina’s Roman Catholic Diocese in Charleston.

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South Caroilina’s Climate, Energy and Commerce Advisory Committee has just published it’s latest CECAC Report.

In the report, recommendations for reducing carbon emissions throughout SC include:

• significantly cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 2020,
• increasing sources of renewable energy - including nuclear power,
• expanding bike and pedestrian opportunities and mass transit, and
• expanding our use of net metering, which allows electric users to generate and sell power back to the grid, forest conservation and methane reclamation.

With emissions growing at that rate across the state between ‘90 and ‘07 - twice that of the national average - hopefully Governor Sanford will be instrumental in creating new jobs to help our, and the rest of the nation’s environment, soon. With our unemployment rate hitting a 15-year high, something drastic needs to be done soon.

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