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So in your denomination people don't have to be baptized to receive communion?

In virtually every Christian (non-Catholic) church I've been in, communion is open to all who profess faith in Christ for salvation.

If you don't, you are asked not to partake.

It is made clear that it's an honor system and that if you partake wrongfully, that is between you and God.

Since baptism saves no one, it doesn't matter if you've been baptized or not or are a member of the denomination or not.

Here's an idea, when YOUR church starts enforcing its own rules about receiving communion, then you can go after other churches and how they do it.

Until then, it's hypocritical to grill others about their requirements for communion when we all know that Catholic priests continue to give communion to pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage, liberal politicians like Kerry and Pelosi, and Kennedy.

Don't hold others to standards you yourselves fail to meet.

I am angry and ashamed when the doctrines of my Church are ignored by priests who are wolves in shepherds' clothing.

I am not asking questions in order to throw shade on non-Catholic people as if my own church were a model of fidelity in this regard. It certainly is not.

I ask questions, because I seek understanding. I presume you do, too?

I would show my respect for the integrity of your church, whatever it is, by not receiving your communion. And this is how you, properly, would be asked to show respect for mine.

It's all about mutual respect.

Your comment: “Since baptism saves no one, it doesn’t matter if you’ve been baptized or not or are a member of the denomination or not.”

Please show me where Jesus agrees with your statement. False statements may harm others.

While some may try hard to understand the Bible, this is an example that personal opinion is in error and misleading and why we should follow Catholic teaching to understand what Jesus tells us in necessary for salvation:

Gospel Mk 16:15-20
Jesus appeared to the Eleven and said to them:
“Go into the whole world
and proclaim the Gospel to every creature.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved;
whoever does not believe will be condemned.
These signs will accompany those who believe:
in my name they will drive out demons,
they will speak new languages.
They will pick up serpents with their hands,
and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them.
They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them,
was taken up into heaven
and took his seat at the right hand of God.
But they went forth and preached everywhere,
while the Lord worked with them
and confirmed the word through accompanying signs.