Reply #12: That priest was just plain wrong.

[Brigid]

Did a little checking, and excommunication is quite rare and reserved only for offenses far more serious than voting choices. We Catholics are not required to be "one-issue" voters. The parishoners should have contacted the diocese about this. The priest himself may have been in violation of canon law by making such a statement. My own parish priest flatly refuses to tell us whom to vote for, despite the efforts of some parishoners to get him to do so.