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" Don&amp;#039;t you just love it when they get all butch?  A Detroit professor and legal adviser to the Vatican says Catholics who promote gay marriage should not try to receive holy Communion, a key part of Catholic identity. And the archbishop of Detroit, Allen Vigneron, said Sunday that Catholics who receive Communion while advocating gay marriage would &amp;quot;logically bring shame for a double-dealing that is not unlike perjury.&amp;quot; The comments of Vigneron and Edward Peters, who teaches Catholic canon law at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, are part of a polarizing discussion about gay marriage that echoes debate over whether politicians who advocate abortion rights should receive Communion. I don&amp;#039;t care very much about Vigneron, although this makes me want to fly to Detroit this weekend to take communion wearing high-heels and a feather boa. He has to be a thoroughgoing nuisance because of the requirements of his job. But this Peters character has chosen to be a thoroughgoing nuisance, so that makes him more interesting. He&amp;#039;s a volunteer. (Also, too: his son is the communications director for the egregious National Organization For Marriage.) In a post on his blog last week, Peters said that Catholic teachings make it clear that marriage is between one man and one woman. And so, &amp;quot;Catholics who promote &amp;#039;same-sex marriage&amp;#039; act contrary to&amp;quot; Catholic law &amp;quot;and should not approach for holy Communion,&amp;quot; he wrote. &amp;quot;They also risk having holy Communion withheld from them ... being rebuked and/or being sanctioned.&amp;quot; Peters didn&amp;#039;t specify a Catholic politician or public figure in his post. But he told the Free Press that a person&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;public efforts to change society&amp;#039;s definition of marriage ... amount to committing objectively wrong actions.&amp;quot; It is Peters&amp;#039;s opinion \u2014 expressed before \u2014 that Catholics who support marriage equality essentially should self-deport from the altar rail, probably for their own eternal good. Thanks for the tip, Ace. But, when I take communion, it&amp;#039;s between me and someone who doesn&amp;#039;t teach canon law in Detroit. He doesn&amp;#039;t ask me for my opinion on whether marriage equality should be legal under the secular law, and I don&amp;#039;t feel obligated to ask. My informed conscience tells me that&amp;#039;s the best way to go.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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