Adulterous Protestants

I went to a funeral the other day. It was a catholic funeral, and as I was sitting in the pew, I picked up a booklet that was stuck in the back on the pew in front of me. It was on the proper ceremony for a catholic funeral, and it was surprisingly thick. I never knew that there were that many rites observed or observable in a funeral. As a baptist funerals are somewhat free-form. As I sat there somewhat distracted by all the pomp, the officiating priest announced the sharing of the bread and the cup. As he did so, he instructed those gathered on the proper way to abstain from the sacrament yet still receive a blessing. I listened as the priest gave various reasons a person would wish not to take the cup, such as having eaten breakfast and thus not having fasted beforehand, or being in the proses of becoming a Catholic, or perhaps being an "adulterous Protestant." I caught that last one out of the corner of my ear as I was pondering the trouble that has been caused over the sharing of the bread and the wine over the centuries, so it gave me a little jolt.
On the way home I mentioned it to a friend who had attended the funeral with me; she hadn't heard that, and as we discussed it, it came out that he had actually said abstaining Protestants. That is a somewhat different thing - in fact it would be hard to be both abstaining and adulterous at the same time!
How often we perceive things to be one way when in reality they are totally different. We see people laughing and think that maybe they are laughing at us, or someone tells us we look like we've lost weight and wonder if we looked fat before. Why is it we always assume the negative option is true instead of the positive?
The Bible says that man can see only what is on the outside of a man while only God can see the heart.* We often take that to mean that a person can look like a good person on the outside, but God can see the scum that clogs his heart, but couldn't it also mean that God can see the pure motives when all we can see is the untimely chuckle?

*1 Samuel 16:7