Posted on 11/16/2002 8:06:54 AM PST by d14truth
The Catholic League is not buying it. Check this out.
November 15, 2002
NANCY PELOSI—“CONSERVATIVE CATHOLIC”?
On yesterday’s CNN show, “Inside Politics,” Nancy Pelosi said, “Yes, I’m a liberal Democrat, but I’m a conservative Catholic.” Her comment was also cited in today’s edition of USA Today.
Catholic League president William Donohue found this amusing:
“Nancy Pelosi, the new Minority Leader in the House of Representatives, has voted against school vouchers and the Faith-Based Initiative. When it comes to abortion, no one in the U.S. Congress has a more extreme record than she does. Whether the issue is parental consent or partial-birth abortion, she can always be counted on to deliver a proabortion vote. Yet she calls herself a ‘conservative Catholic.’ It would be instructive to know what she considers a liberal Catholic to be.
“It’s actually worse than this. The October 12 edition of the PBS program, ‘To the Contrary,’ showed Pelosi playing host to anti-Catholics. Frances Kissling and other staff members of the notoriously anti-Catholic organization Catholics for a Free Choice, were featured walking out of Pelosi’s office after a lobbying session.
“Pelosi’s contacts with these anti-Catholics is nothing new: in 1995 she was critical of the U.S. bishops for blasting Kissling’s outfit as anti-Catholic. At that time, the bishops objected to the inclusion of Kissling’s group at the U.N. Conference on Women that was to be held in Beijing. In reference to Kissling, William Cardinal Keeler, then head of the bishops’ conference, said ‘To use the name Catholic to promote the taking of innocent life is offensive.’ Pelosi defended Kissling saying ‘Many women are concerned about freedom of speech and association at the conference. Accreditation should not be a politicized process.’ It is not surprising, then, that Pelosi refuses to condemn the DNC for its support for Kissling’s group today.
“In short, Pelosi’s spin game is insulting. No conservative Catholic we know okays the killing of kids 80 percent born.”
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Loved this line: Well Pelosi, get ready, because the conservatirve media is going to take it out of your political hide and cream you and yours once and for all.
Thanks for posting this, it's the best read of the day for me!
This is why liberals and Clintons can seem to prevail, since they fool some of the people all of the time.
Besides, she's pretty. Especially for a 62 year old woman!!
The clowns that attack her for her appearance look foolish...Just like the morons who still attack Chelsea just because she's the spawn of Satan and that fat chick.
62 years old? She doesn't look a day over 60.
And the Republicans must destroy her like the Democrats destroyed Newt Gingrich.
First, dig up (or make up) some unsavory scandals. Second, turn her into a laughingstock. Third, turn her into a laughingstock who is a threat to national security. And finally, turn her into a national security threat who isn't funny anymore.
Sorry, I lost all my spare change today as a result of a bad bet on the outcome of the Ohio/Illinois game.
"Mr. Speaker, this is about wise spending. More importantly it is about giving hope. It is protecting the investment that the American taxpayers have made of billions of dollars into research for AIDS research. Now that we have found some encouraging therapies, it is important to make them available to everyone regardless of the ability to pay."
... or the 'CHOICE' they made to need them.
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