Possibly...or the influence of a Scripture-free, tradition-oriented Romanist religion.
There is that.
And what is with Pelosi?
As Alex once opined: [Roman Catholics] make just one thing crucial to salvation - kissing the Pope's ring. Ultimately, everything else is negotiable for them. IMO nothing else explains why Trinitarian pro-life Protestants are anathemized, while atheistic pro-abort Democrats receive Pope-presided communion wafers and Cardinal-presided funeral masses.
A total lack of church discipline leads to shenanigans like pro-abort pols receiving communion and priests molesting children. But then Papists on FR are indignant when the world acts like the world, as this thread demonstrates.
Well put. But, with all due respect to GWB, notice who is standing right behind the "pope" along with Condoleeza. We ought to also be asking, "Why is the teaching of the biblical Gospel so absent in today's gatherings that we end up with ecumenically polluted, biblically impoverished leaders like this?" & "What happened to the clarion call of Edwards, Spurgeon, et al?"
They did not do in San Francisco what Nancy Pelosi thinks they did.