This story ran a week ago, but I just spotted it:

State senate leader says he'll quit Catholic church

Only days after the Newark archbishop called it dishonest for Catholic politicians to take communion if they favor abortion rights, a legislative leader said he will leave the Catholic church.

State Senate Majority Leader Bernard Kenny, D-Hudson, 57, a former altar boy who regularly attended Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Hoboken until about a year ago, said he had considered leaving the church about two years ago because his views on several issues, including abortion, conflicted with the church....

...he said he opposes church doctrine against abortion, stem-cell research, civil unions for gay people and the death penalty....

Archbishop Myers' five-page pastoral letter said it is "objectively dishonest" for Catholics who publicly dissent from church doctrine on abortion to receive the Eucharist....

Kenny said he met with the monsignor of Ss. Peter and Paul two days after learning of Myers' letter, asking what would happen if he approached the altar to receive communion there.

"He said he would give me communion, but that he then would have asked to have met with me and ask me not to come again (for communion)," Kenny said....

--Jersey Journal

The article says that Kenny's wife is staying in the church and receiving communion. I know what she's going through -- the Catholic Church scares the crap out of you practically from birth by saying you'll burn in hell for all eternity if you reject the True Faith -- but I'm sorry to hear she's staying. If a church were using a member of my family as a political football to help one party win elections, I absolutely would leave in solidarity.