[BillyBoy]

Neither Catholics nor Baptists have a "central structure" dictating which of their members can receive communion, under what circumstances. In BOTH cases, it is entirely up to individual pastors to make that call.

. When it comes to Catholic ministers, I would say roughly 5% have made the decision to withhold communion from pro-abortion politicians.

When it comes to Baptist ministers, I have seen zero make a statement along the lines of "Kamala Harris is not welcome to receive the Lord's Supper with our community until she repents of her support of abortion on demand" . And yes, that includes even self described "very conservative, traditional, Bible believing" Baptist congregations. For example, Joe Biden was denied communion by a Catholic priest in South Carolina. I haven't seen a similar case of a Baptist pastor in Alabama turning down Kamala Harris.

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Neither Catholics nor Baptists have a "central structure" dictating which of their members can receive communion, under what circumstances. In BOTH cases, it is entirely up to individual pastors to make that call.

So the magisterium doesn't exist? Or the little thing called interdiction, in which the Catholic Church denied communion to whole countries and kingdoms. It could be argued that the majority of the structure of the Roman Catholic church is about who can, cannot, and may not receive sacraments.

Several here in FR used to argue that politicians that support abortion are excommunicated (Denied sacraments). Of course, that is not true, but on paper it is.