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Posted on 03/02/2007 5:53:43 AM PST by NYer
Sounds like a condition of membership. As used to be commonly said (but no more), hey!, it's a free country! Nancy is free to associate with a church that doesn't place that condition on membership. And the church is free to accept or decline membership as it pleases as well. Or have we come to the point where there is no longer any such thing as voluntary association?
The bishop, bless him, makes a superb point here.
But Ms. Pelosi is a priestess of the Church of Liberalism, and that faith holds that anything is Oh-Kee-Doh-Kee. Period.
A Catholic who is pro-abortion is like a Red Sox' fan who roots for the Yankees. Even when the Yankees are playing the Red Sox.
Good for the Archbishop, but how long till charges are filed? I am only half kidding.
Ah, yes! The church that should be loyal to its heretics...
My, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree... Perhaps in this case, a Durian fruit would be an appropriate anaolgy.
And if you don't know what it is, do a quick internet search... ;)
Pelosi is a heretic, Monsignor...
So, do you have the backbone to
excommunicate her?
Uh, hasn't Kerry and Teddy been getting away with the same thing?
"even though the Church has not been that faithful to her because of her politics."
So....the Church has to accommodate her beliefs, she doesn't have to accommodate the Church beliefs? What does Catholic mean then? Can one call themself a Catholic and believe as a Baptist? Jewish? muslim?
The Church is what it is. It need not be "faithful" to her beliefs or politics.
and no, i'm not a Catholic.
"Sounds like a condition of membership."
You are close, but I think the concept of "membership" is wrong.
Being a member of something implies a choice, true, but it does not convey the sacrosanct beliefs implicit in religion.
Not to be nitpicky ( -; I think adherent or follower would be a better description. If Pelosi and daughter adhered or followed Catholicism, they could not make statements opposed to the tenets and remain followers.
She is excommuncated 'latae sententiae'.
Stated purely for political reasons. She's not thinking of her faith she is thinking of VOTES! Apparently her Catholic faith is not something she thinks about very deeply. Go figure!
Not really, I don't think priestess Nancy believes that the woman who has the right to choose to kill her baby, has the right to choose to carry a gun to defend herself.
"A Catholic who is pro-abortion is like a Red Sox' fan who roots for the Yankees. Even when the Yankees are playing the Red Sox"
OOoooh! I like that!
Mind if I steal it and pass it on?
*APPLAUSE* Should be repeated loudly and often. Hypocrites!
"Not really, I don't think priestess Nancy believes that the woman who has the right to choose to kill her baby, has the right to choose to carry a gun to defend herself."
I hadn't considered that particular hypocricy before.
Excellent point!
women must "defend" themselves from these little babies/burdens, but should not be able to take out a would be rapist.
Sure. Just send a dollar to my PayPal account every time you use it. :)
Niederauer should be excommunicated too.
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