Shame on Democrats, Governor Whitmer mocks the Eucharist

The US Democratic Party confirms its support for evil, including blasphemy. Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, is one of the most influential and staunch supporters of Kamala Harris's candidacy, with whom she shares the same furious zeal for abortion and the imposition of LGBT doctrines. In a recent video that went viral, on 10 October, Whitmer, wearing a camouflage hat emblazoned with a Harris/Walz logo, fed ‘Doritos’ chips to a left-wing social media celebrity, Canadian feminist Liz Plank, with 610,000 followers on her ‘feministabulous’ Instagram page, who was kneeling to receive it, in a blasphemous parody of the Catholic sacrament of Eucharistic Communion.

We Catholics believe that at Mass the bread and wine undergo a process called transubstantiation in which they are transformed into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ. The bread, in the form of small discs called ‘hosts’, is then distributed to people who are in a state of grace and therefore can receive it, according to the form recommended by the Church, on the tongue while standing or kneeling or even, according to a more recent indulgence, on the hand.

Governor Whitmer's staging specifically mimics ‘the posture and gestures of Catholics receiving the Holy Eucharist, in which we believe Jesus Christ is truly present,’ reads a statement from Paul A. Long, president of the Michigan Catholic Conference. ‘It's not just distasteful or ‘weird,’ it's an all too familiar example of an elected official mocking religious people and their practices,’ Long said on behalf of the bishops, adding that ’people in this state and across the country have grown weary and continue to express their alarm at the lowering, day by day, of the bar of civility and respect toward people of faith. (...) For those who hold public office, their handlers and strategists, the time has come to restore a level of respect, civility and appreciation for those who have found peace and fulfilment in life by worshipping God and serving their neighbour'. In the Holy Mass, a memorial that actualises the sacrifice on Calvary, Jesus gives His Body for the salvation of mankind; the Innocent and sinless One, He gave Himself up to death so that we may live fully, as resurrected (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:15).

Reactions, even from lay Catholics, were not long in coming, while the whole host of ‘devout’ Catholics (devoted to LGBT ideology and abortion) who support the Democratic Party, current President Biden and candidate Harris, remain locked in complicit silence.

On Friday 11 October, Catholic League President Bill Donohue severely criticised Whitmer, insisting that she had ‘insulted Catholics nationwide when she intentionally ridiculed the Eucharist in a video. There is no way to understand this stunt other than as an expression of vintage anti-Catholic bigotry'. On Sunday 13 October, when it was too late to backtrack and perhaps at the request of the Democratic Party itself, Governor Gretchen Whitmer apologised, saying that the video ‘was interpreted as something it was never intended to be’, it was only meant to highlight the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 that allocated nearly $53 billion to bring semiconductor supply chains back to the US.

A more than ridiculous justification. So much so that on Sunday a group of at least a hundred Catholics prayed the holy Rosary Rally for Religious Respect in front of the governor's residence, near Moores River Drive, in Michigan's capital city of Lansing. The organisation Catholic Vote told Fox News Digital that Sunday's rally was motivated by ‘deep concern about recent actions that undermine the dignity of the Eucharist and the rising tide of anti-Catholic sentiment promoted by some on the progressive left (...). Let's also hope this serves as a reminder to our elected officials that Catholics vote’.

The president of Students for Life America, Kristan Hawkins, wrote on her social media: ‘Mocking God and His Church: that's what the Democratic Party is doing now. Christians and Catholics should not vote for or tolerate a political movement whose most sacred sacrament is abortion.’