It will come as little surprise to faithful readers of this blog, but the Lying Worthless Political Hack, as I affectionately refer to ex-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D. San Francisco), took the opportunity during an interview with the Washington Post to slam the Church she purportedly is a member of:
On abortion
Pelosi recently was criticized for the way she characterized a bill to amend Republican-proposed conscience exemptions for health-care reform that allow providers to refuse to perform abortions. Pelosi called the measure, which passed last month with some help from Democrats, “savage,’’ and said, “When the Republicans vote for this bill today, they will be voting to say that women can die on the floor and health-care providers do not have to intervene, if this bill is passed. It’s just appalling.”
In retrospect, does she think that assessment went too far? Not at all, she said: “They would” let women die on the floor, she said. “They would! Again, whatever their intention is, this is the effect.’’
Catholic health-care providers in particular have long said they’d have to go out of business without the conscience protections that Pelosi says amount to letting hospitals “say to a woman, ‘I’m sorry you could die’ if you don’t get an abortion.” Those who dispute that characterization “may not like the language,’’ she said, “but the truth is what I said. I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it .?.?. but they have this conscience thing’’ that she insists put women at physical risk, although Catholic providers strongly disagree.
On one occasion, she said, laughing, one of her critics on the topic of abortion, speaking on the House floor, said, “Nancy Pelosi thinks she knows more about having babies than the pope. They think like this. And of course I do — I think the pope would agree — and I know more than you, too, mister.’’
Go here to read the rest of the interview at the Washington Post. Of course it is little surprise that the adamantly pro-abort Nancy Pelosi has little but ill-concealed contempt for the teaching of the Church on abortion that goes back to the era of the Apostles. What is surprising is that this anti-Catholic bigot, and others like her, are still able to present themselves for communion, receive the votes of many Catholics in this land, and the vast majority of the bishops in this country might as well be potted plants as far as this scandal of public dissent by elected Catholic officials going on for decades is concerned. When the Lying Worthless Political Hack finally departs this vale of tears, I wonder if she will get the same type of “canonization mass” that Ted Kennedy got with a cardinal in attendance? I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
Some other posts on the Lying Worthless Political Hack:
Worthless-political-hack-says-embryonic-stem-cell-research-is-answer-to-our-prayers
Lying-worthless-political-hack-fears-violence-in-the-debate-over-obamacare
Lying-worthless-political-hack-calls-opponents-of-obamacare-nazis
Pelosi-saint-joseph-and-the-catholic-medical-association
The-dignity-and-worth-of-every-person
The Church in America deserves all the trials and tribulations it is getting simply because Her Bishops will NOT turn over to Satan people like Nancy Pelosi. That’s what St. Paul told the Church at Corinth to do with a man sleeping with his father’s wife. And that is exactly what he would tell us to do with a woman promoting and extolling the infanticide of the unborn. 1st Corinthians 5:4-5:
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus
Don”t blame me. I voted for McCain.
Plus, she made millions $$$ on trading inside info from her legislative activities.
She’ll receive communion, no questions ask, the first Sunday in Advent, with the tacit approval of her local ordinary.
We can rage all we want at her, but she’s a symptom of the actual malady.
“askED.”
Grrr. My two year old is going to have to reconsider her current vocation of living alarm clock. Stat.
Kind of makes me hope the atheists are right, because WE have MUCH to answer for allowing narrowbacks like Pelosi ruin this country!!!
Couldn’t help noticing in the video, Obama mentioning that defining when life begins is above his pay-grade.
With the benefit of experience, it appears that most other things are as well.
As for Pelosi, I wonder what her P.P and other parishioners think of her at her home parish – or does she scuttle off somewhere where she is less recogniseable?
“With the benefit of experience, it appears that most other things are as well.”
Indeed Don! Some men rise to the challenge of high office, but unfortunately Mr. Obama is not among their number.
He has risen to the level of incompetant.
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