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	Pro-Life Law Professor Stunned by Priest's Refusal of Communion Catholic News Service June 6, 2008 http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20080604.htm WASHINGTON (CNS) -- For Pepperdine law professor Douglas Kmiec, a constitutional lawyer who often writes on religion in the public square, the situation had uncomfortable echoes of the last presidential election cycle -- a priest was refusing to give Communion to someone on the basis of the man's support of a candidate. This time, though, the surprised Massgoer turned away by a priest was Kmiec himself. The former dean of the law school at The Catholic University of America in Washington is an architect of the Reagan administration's stance against abortion whose pro-life credentials include serving as keynote speaker at the March for Life's annual Rose Dinner a few years ago. When the priest upbraided the law professor from the pulpit for his endorsement of presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and then refused to give him Communion, Kmiec was stunned, he told Catholic News Service June 4 in a telephone interview. (Since 2002 Kmiec has been a monthly columnist for CNS.) The incident occurred at a Mass preceding the meeting of a Catholic business group in California at which Kmiec was the featured speaker.
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