Recently I noted that a student at University of Central Florida exited Mass with the Eucharist, holding it hostage for several days. This scurrilous act has evidently inspired Paul Zachary Myers, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has declared his intent to desecrate the Host out of pique at the Catholic League for reproving the UCF student.

Myers’s diatribe can be found at his faculty page on the university’s website. The Catholic League excerpts his unspeakably disrespectful July 8 post, “It’s a Frackin’ Cracker!”:

Can anyone out there score me some consecrated communion wafers? … if any of you would be willing to do what it takes to get me some … I’ll show you sacrilege, gladly, and with much fanfare. I won’t be tempted to hold it hostage (no, not even if I have a choice between returning the Eucharist and watching Bill Donohue kick the pope in the balls, which would apparently be a more humane act than desecrating a goddamned cracker), but will instead treat it with profound disrespect and heinous cracker abuse, all photographed and presented here on the web.’

The Catholic League is contacting the UM President and Regents as well as the Minnesota legislature to determine how they can deal with this outrage. CL President Bill Donohue comments:

It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ. We look to those who have oversight responsibility to act quickly and decisively.”