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SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters

"A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has 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.'"

Note: Nationwide, Obama actually took 54% of the Catholic vote, compared to only 45% of Protestants.

What's more interesting to me is that he actually lost the combined Christian vote 51-48. (He won Catholics by 9 points and lost Protestants by the same margin, but there are twice as many Protestants as Catholics). So much for America being a Christian nation. You would think that fact would have cost him the election, since 81% of voters are Christian, but Obama took an incredible 75% of the non-Christian vote. He took 78% of the Jewish vote, 75% of the athiest/agnostic bloc, and 73% of the "other."

Sidebar: Among white Protestants, Obama lost by 31 points (34-65)! You'd think it would be impossible to overcome that large a deficit since those voters represent nearly half (42%) of the electorate, but he won the non-Christian and non-white votes by even larger margins.

The likelihood of any voter to choose Obama was inversely correlated to frequency of Church attendance. McCain won 55-43 among those who attend Church weekly or more, but Obama won 59-39 among the "a few times a year" group, and 67-30 among the "never" group. (The "monthly" group was split fairly evenly, slightly favoring Obama.)

Here are all the exit polls, if you care to review them.