I'm tired of this crap

This crap.

A California pastor told his parishioners to attend confessional if they had voted for President-elect Barack Obama because of his stance on abortion, the McClatchy Tribune reported.

The Rev. Joseph Illo, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Modesto, Calif., said voting for a pro-choice candidate amounted to a punishable sin.

“If you are one of the 54 percent of Catholics who voted for a pro-abortion candidate, you were clear on his position and you knew the gravity of the question, I urge you to go to confession before receiving communion. Don’t risk losing your state of grace by receiving sacrilegiously,” Illo wrote in a letter dated Nov. 21.

Illo sent the letter to more than 15,000 members of his parish, one of 34 parishes in the Stockton diocese.

Illo also delivered this message in a homily, the Modesto Bee reported.

But not all priest agree with Illo’s point of view.

When priests and ministers and rabbis and other holy men enter the political arena and make asinine statements like this from the pulpet then their tax exemptions should be yanked.