A South Carolina priest told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil:
"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, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."
Watch the following video report from South Carolina's WHNS-TV:
Obama opposed the ban on partial-birth abortion -- a practice the late Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called "too close to infanticide."
Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban.
In the Illinois state Senate, Obama opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents the killing of infants who survive a botched abortion.
Obama has even said he would not want his daughters to be "punished with a baby."