No, I said what the Church the mayor thinks he belongs to *teaches*.  And has taught for 2000 years.  I certainly didn't invent it.  It is *not* as a matter of historic fact a "personal" action "between the communicant and God".  It is a very public act within the Church and it is the Church that is the minister and guardian of the sacraments.  People who don't believe that are under no obligation whatever to stay in it, but are bound by simple honesty to follow the same practice as everybody else in that Church.  The mayor excommunicated *himself* by contracting something he calls marriage and the Church does not.  Why would he want to be so dishonest as to seek communion in a place whose teaching he so obviously rejects?   If as you say, the action is not of the Church and the mayor thinks that as well, he is what is called a "Protestant".  They've been around for several years now and some of them believe as you do.  Catholics, and incidentally Orthodox Christians do not.