Posted on 12/08/2011 8:53:03 AM PST by massmike
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says she respects her bishops’ opinions when they discuss scripture or morality, but when it comes to their efforts to protect the rights of Catholics to follow their church’s teachings in law she considers them simply “lobbyists” with whom she has her disagreements.
Pelosi, who describes herself as “a devout Catholic,” told a reporter from CNSNews.com at a press conference recently, “I have great respect for our bishops when they are my pastor. As lobbyists in Washington D.C., we have some areas of disagreement.”
She was responding to a question about a Department of Health and Human Services regulation that goes into effect on August 1, 2012, requiring every health insurance plan to cover sterilization and contraceptives (including abortifacients) free of charge. Such practices violate Roman Catholic teaching, yet millions of Catholics will have to pay for them or refuse to carry health insurance.
Pelosi’s depiction of the bishops as Beltway influence-peddlers has riled even some non-Catholics. Geoffrey Surtees of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a legal organization dedicated to preserving religious freedom, wrote, “Religious leaders are not lobbyists when they petition the government to protect the dignity of marriage or the rights of the unborn. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was no lobbyist on account of his support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
Pelosi’s characterization, Surtees wrote, is “quite simply, insulting. And not just to Catholics. It’s an insult to all citizens who believe that religious freedom, enshrined in the First Amendment, is a fundamental right and governing principle of our constitutional order.”
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Nancy I am convinced that there is a special level of h*ll for those who proclaim to be Catholic but yet act in every way to not be Catholic.To wear it as a badge rather than to live it.To me this would be the worst level of h*ll but OTOH all of your friends will be there.....
“My local guy is good, but the leaders are wrong”
I bet most of the US would say the same thing about their Congressfolk....:^)
She’s a damned liar!
If she had any respect for her bishop and had a conscience inforned by Church’s teachings, then
#1 She would be against sex outside of marriage
#2 agree that marriage can only be effected between a man and a woman
#3 understand that while those with same sex attraction deserve to be treated with love and dignity as human persons, their attraction is disordered and, as with all sex outside of marriage, it is sinful.
#4 agree that abortion is a grave moral evil because it is the killing of an innocent human person
#5 understand that contraception violates the sanctity of marriage in that it closes off the possibility of love expressed in the sex act from being fruitful.
Sorry, Nancy but you’re a lousy Catholic and no one listens to you anyway.
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