Excommunicated in Ottawa

Following Kate's lead over at SDA, here's a link to a fine rant by Angry, concerning some Catholic policians(?) in Ottawa who have been denied communion (finally).

UPDATE: Further to Angry's piece ... concerning those Catholic NDP politicians who were effectively excommunicated for voting for SSM. When they ran for the NDP, would they not expect to be kicked from caucus for NOT voting for SSM? So those in political parties can be 'excommunicated' as a reasonable consequence to not toeing the party line, but then get up in arms when their Church does the same thing?