Denial of Communion?

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/may/09050613.html

Is the denial of communion an unfair political statement, a "weapon" used to threaten people to get back in line? Read this guys, it is short and offers very interesting insight into why the Holy Father (and canon law) says that Catholics who publicly oppose the Church's moral teachings are to be denied communion and why a particular Archbishop believes it is within his rights to still offer it.

As much as my heart has been inspired by what I have seen as a gradual awakening of US Catholics to the real threats to life and family that permeate our nation, it still really saddens me to see a leader of our Church deciding to do this. He opposes not only the explicit instruction of the Holy Father, but in some ways has completely forgotten his duty to uphold the sanctity and holiness of the Sacrament. Far too often do we see this; for the sake of "inclusion" and "tolerance" we betray the very truths of our faith. Has Archbishop Wuerl forgotten that we as Catholics are obligated to refrain from the Eucharist when we are in grave objective states of sin? Generally the minister does not know our states of conscience, but if the case arises in which a person publicly and undeniably opposes the moral teachings of the Church, how can they freely be admitted to communion? Is it not the minister's duty to remind them that they should refrain from the Sacrament until their sin is remitted if the minister is so obviously and clearly aware of the sin? We learned this in like grade school catechism; that an Archbishop would blatantly and publicly rebel against this very straightforward teaching about conditions to receive communion confuses me and frankly makes me sad.