Here it comes…

No communion for couple who spoke out against gay marriage ban

GILLETTE, Wyo. A lesbian couple in Gillette have been told they can’t receive communion at the church they’ve attended since 1998, in part because they publicly opposed a bill that would have barred Wyoming from recognizing gay marriages. Leah Vader and Lynne Huskinson have attended Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church since 1998, and were married two years ago in Canada. Earlier this year, when the Legislature considered a bill that would have barred Wyoming from recognizing such marriages, the two said the bill amounted to discrimination.

Last week, they got a letter from the Reverend Cliff Jacobson of Saint Matthew’s, telling them they can no longer receive communion, in part because of their public position.

Jacobson says the church reaches out to homosexuals, but that it must do so within its own moral structure. He says the Cheyenne Diocese played a role in the decision to bar the women from receiving communion.

(emphasis mine…)  Yeah the church reaches out to homosexuals.  With a clenched fist.  This is just the first crack of the whip.  They’ve been hinting for years now that they’ll start using communion, and possibly even excommunication, as a way of punishing dissent.  It’ll come down on the gay people in the pews first, because we’re the easy target.  But heterosexuals who don’t vote the way Pope Ratzinger dictates, or who are politically active in politically incorrect ways, will be next.  Never doubt that.