AG agrees with Archbishop: Communion wine constitutionally protected

Akash Sama­roo

The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has en­dorsed Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don’s po­si­tion that of­fer­ing Com­mu­nion wine to peo­ple of all ages is con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly pro­tect­ed, dis­miss­ing the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the new al­co­hol leg­is­la­tion as a “storm in a teacup.”

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions on whether he agreed with Gor­don’s in­ter­pre­ta­tion that the re­li­gious prac­tice re­quired no ex­emp­tion un­der the leg­is­la­tion, and whether cler­gy or wor­ship­pers could face pros­e­cu­tion, AG John Je­re­mie said, “It’s ob­vi­ous­ly cor­rect. And a re­fresh­ing­ly mea­sured and in­formed re­sponse to what was a storm in a teacup non-is­sue.”