Posted on 01/03/2019 11:35:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.), who was elected Speaker of the House this afternoon, said in her speech accepting the position that she intends to serve in the spirit of St. Francis.
Let me especially thank my constituents in San Francisco, who have entrusted me to represent them in Congress in the spirit of Saint Francis, our patron saintwhose song of Saint Francis is our anthem: Lord, make me a channel of thy peaceas we beautifully sang in church this morning, Pelosi said.
We enter this new Congress with a sense of great hope and confidence for the future, and deep humility and prayerfulness in the face of the challenges ahead, she said. [ ]
We must fight for the middle class in a way that is fair and fiscally soundprotecting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We must also face the existential threat of our time: the climate crisisa crisis manifested in natural disasters of epic proportions. [
] We will make our communities safer and keep our sacred promise to the victims, survivors and families of gun violence by passing commonsense bipartisan background check legislation. We will make America fairer by passing the Equality Act to end discrimination against LGBTQ Americans. And we will make America more American by protecting our patriotic, courageous Dreamers!
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She’d probably say “the Pacific”, knowing her.
Fell fowl of a foul feather.
Clarification: I do not refer to the true Francis, but the man who usurped the name to join with people like Pelosi in subverting the Gospel.
Is St. Francis the patron saint of Satanism?
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