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Image via Wikipedia Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has called on Catholic schools and parishes not to invite state legislators to speak at or attend any events, and to refuse any honors bestowed on them by the governor or any legislator responsible for the bill’s passage.  The sanctions, however, do not include refusing Governor Cuomo or other Catholic politicians who supported the passage of same-sex ‘marriage’ Holy Communion . Msgr. Kieran Harrington, Vicar for Communications for the Diocese of Brooklyn , told LifeSiteNews that “there are no plans to deny Holy Communion to elected officials at this point.” New York became the 6th and largest state in the country to permit same-sex marriage last month, when Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Marriage Equality Act into law just before midnight on June 24th, less than two hours after the bill was passed out of the State Senate. In his strong statement decrying the bill’s passage, Bishop DiMarzio said: “Governor Andrew Cuom...