{"id":74805,"date":"2015-09-23T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T21:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=74805"},"modified":"2015-09-23T17:28:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T21:28:55","slug":"unreal-pelosi-promotes-abortion-and-gushes-over-popes-in-same-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/unreal-pelosi-promotes-abortion-and-gushes-over-popes-in-same-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreal: Pelosi promotes abortion and gushes over popes in same interview"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s bad enough when secular pro-aborts ignorantly lecture religions on their pro-life values<\/a>, but professed members of those religions doing the same is particularly shameful. On Monday, the New York Times ran an interview<\/a> with House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi, in which she casually dismisses any notion of inconsistency between her pro-abortion radicalism<\/a> and her self-identification as a devout Catholic.<\/p>\n

Pelosi goes on and on about her adoration for meeting and seeing past popes, going so far as to claim, \u201cI loved Benedict\u2019s writings and speeches,\u201d which the NYT follows up by writing that she \u201ccarefully reads each encyclical with the rapt attention of a serious cook who devours every issue of \u2018Bon App\u00e9tit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The article also includes Pelosi\u2019s video welcome<\/a> to Pope Francis, in which she credits him for \u201cinspir[ing] a new generation of people, regardless of religious affiliation, to be instruments of God\u2019s peace,\u201d and claims:<\/p>\n

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The lesson of the Bible is to minister to the needs of God\u2019s creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us. From immigration and the climate crisis to poverty and peace, Pope Francis\u2019s moral leadership has challenged the world to meet that responsibility to the future of our children. Pope Francis is a brilliant beacon of the divine spark that resides in each of us, and he upholds the beautiful call to compassion within the Gospel of Matthew: \u2018For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.\u2019
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From posturing as someone who hangs on every pope\u2019s every word to suggesting her positions on amnesty and global warming spring directly from her religious duties to invoking \u201cresponsibility to children\u201d and the \u201cdivine spark that resides in each of us,\u201d this paints a distinct picture of someone who takes her faith very, very seriously\u2026 if taken at face value.<\/p>\n

But what about the \u201cthou shalt not murder\u201d discrepancy? Pelosi dismisses it on the grounds that the \u201cchurch has their position, and we have ours, which is that a woman has free will given to her by God. My family is very pro-life.\u201d For good measure, she adds, \u201cI actually agree with the pope on more issues than many Catholics who agree with him on one issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when papal guidance happens to line up with what Pelosi wants to do anyway, it rises to the level of \u201cresponsibility,\u201d dissent from which \u201cdishonor[s] the God who made us.\u201d But when she has to chose between her politics and piety, she happily chooses the former and demotes tenets she doesn\u2019t like to the \u201cchurch\u2019s position.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the faith Pelosi claims to revere, that doesn\u2019t fly. First, the Bible teaches Christians of every denomination the following:<\/p>\n