Attack on Pynchon!

[Terrance]

barbara100 at jps.net wrote:
> 
> ARE WE GOING TO LET HIM GET AWAY WITH  THS BLASPHEMY!?
> 
> "...Between two station marks, yellow crayon through the years of grease and
> passage, 1966 and 1971, I tasted my first blood. Do you want to put this
> part in?] We drank the blood of our enemies.  That's why you see Gnostics so
> hunted.  The sacrament of the Eucharist is really drinking the blood of the
> enemy.  The Grail, the Sangraal, is the bloody vehicle.  Why else guard it
> so sacredly? Why should the black honor-guard ride half a continent, half a
> splintering Empire, stone night and winter day, if it's only for the touch
> of sweet lips on a humble bowl?  No, it's mortal sin they're carrying: to
> swallow the enemy, down into the slick juicery to be taken in by all the
> cells.  Your officially defined 'mortal sin,' that is.  A sin against you.
> A section of your penal code, that's all. [ The true sin was yours: to
> interdict that union.  To draw that line.  To keep us worse than enemies,
> who are after all caught in the same field of shit--to keep us strangers."
> (GR 862)

This is page 738-39 in my copy. 

So, what does it mean to you? I mean, what the hell is this guy talking
about? 

This is a spokesman. He's being interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. 
I think it is safe to say that the WSJ is THEIR newspaper. 

But what on earth is this spokesman talking about? 
I mean I have a lot of ideas about the passage, but what do you think it
says?