[Apologetics] About That Whole Kerry Excommunication Thing

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Jim Murphy wrote:

> out of this little problem. Last time I looked only about 4-7% of your
> members follow the church teaching on the issue of birth control. Why
> not excommunicate the whole bunch.  A few Sundays from now just have them

There is a huge difference in gravity between the sin of abortion and
and the sin of (non-abortifacient) birth control.  Abortion is
clearly a mortal sin (especially for the butch^H^H^H^H^Hdoctor).  I would like
to see your case that birth control is a mortal sin.  Obviously, it
leads to sexual immorality and abortion down the road, just as unchecked
anger will eventually lead to murder.  But that doesn't make it a mortal
sin.

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