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Kmiec Denied Communion Over Obama Endorsement

By Ed Brayton

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Remember a few weeks ago when prominent conservative legal scholar Doug Kmiec endorsed Barack Obama? In a really odd turn of events Kmiec, a devout Catholic, was denied the right to take communion by a university chaplain after the chaplain excoriated him for supporting Obama. Not that I really have any stake in who is eating who's flesh and blood as long as it isn't mine, but this strikes me as bizarre and unjustified. Even Ed Peters, an expert in church law who has long encouraged withholding communion from certain people, says Kmiec deserves an apology for this and claims that the chaplain's actions violate canon law.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).

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