re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall our priest giving a sermon stating that the Catholic SCOTUS judge who voted to support Roe vs. Wade should be excommunicated.

I am theologically ignorant.

However, I remember listening to a philosophy lecture years ago where the lecturer noted that a big difference between the Western and Eastern Empires (Rome versus Byzantium) was how they treated religious infractions against the state church. The Roman Empire punished religious violations, such as witchcraft, under civil law. The Byzantine Empire required actual, provable damage from things like witchcraft before they would prosecute.

I cannot say that I ever personally followed up to verify this, though.