If you are a gay activist in the People’s Republic of Washington DC, you can commit a crime against the Catholic Church with impunity. So says a bigoted judge, who refused to sentence gay activists convicted of refusing to leave a church when they were denied Holy Communion (they were wearing gay-rights paraphernalia at the time, and as a form of protest were daring the priest to withhold Communion). It is the Church’s right to deny Communion to anyone — indeed, in the United States, thanks to the First Amendment, all religious organizations have the right to decide how to govern themselves, as long as they break no laws — but these crybabies testified that they were “emotionally shattered” by the priest’s refusal. The judge, a Catholic, said she had to convict, but refused to sentence them for their crime, and even took it upon herself to apologize to the criminals for Rome’s stance on homosexuality.