Even More Worrisome?

I wrote yesterday about the Bishop of Rhode Island's stance that Rep. Patrick Kennedy not take communion because of his views on abortion. In some ways more personally disturbing was the following comment from the same Yahoo! News article:

[Bishop] Tobin told The Associated Press in an interview Sunday that he's praying for the younger Kennedy, who has been in and out of treatment for substance abuse, and said Kennedy has been acting "erratically."

Now I don't know if the relationship between Rep. Kennedy's public openness about his substance abuse recovery and behaving "erratically" was made by the Bishop or the Associated Press. In either case it is a sad connection. When challenging Kennedy or others in recovery it is not logical that acting "erratically" and "treatment" go together. Perhaps in recovery, one is able to think more clearly than before. Perhaps not. But the slam of that quote is not appropriate.