Dem Congressman berated by deacon in church

[AnnInLa]

http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/01/sigh.html

(click thru's on above site)

Sigh

This incident of idiotic thinking brought to you by the same people who persecuted Galileo and turned a blind eye to an epidemic of child rape.

Buffalo congressman Brian Higgins walked out of a Catholic church service Sunday after a deacon berated him during a sermon for the lawmaker's recent vote supporting stem cell research.

The public tongue-lashing came during morning Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic church, where deacon Tom McDonnell criticized the Democratic lawmaker.

Higgins, who was baptized and married in that church, walked out with his wife and son.

[monmouth]

1. As a Catholic, I'll pray he never returns there. Sickening.....

[wellstone dem]

2. As a Catholic, I too have walked out

and talked to my priest, and wrote letters to the bishops. And it is only going to get worse, as the post Vatican 2 priest come of age, at a time when there are fewer priests and therefore they have more power. I weep for my church.

[Ian David]

3. Duplicate

NY Congressman Walks Out Of Church after deacon's sermon attacks him for stem cell vote
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3080042&mesg_id=3080042

[countmyvote4real]

4. They should have walked out. Good for him.

I hope Higgins will make an issue of this ignorance.

[Selatius]

5. I left the Catholic Church a long time ago and became a Deist.

I would've walked out even if I were still Catholic, for the deacon is no better than I at divining the will of God.

[ContraBass Black]

6. Head high, down the center aisle, I hope.

[northofdenali]

7. WWJD? "Let he who is without sin...."

Tom McDonnell should be publicly reprimanded by the parish priest and/or bishop. I commend the congressman for walking out!