August 25, 2008 11:34 AM
Pelosi lies re: Catholic doctrine on life
Pelosi: When Life Begins Shouldn't Have An Impact On A Woman's Right To Choose
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What Makes a Speaker Catholic?
Buying into Pelosi's personal church.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez
August 25, 2008, 0:40 a.m.Denver -- "If you're Catholic and you disagree with your Church. What do you do? You change your mind."
So said Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, archbishop of the Catholic archdiocese of Denver, at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at 6:30 Mass on Sunday night, as the Democratic Convention was set to begin.
His comments -- part of his homily during the Mass -- came hours after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, describing herself as an "ardent practicing Catholic," announced that when life begins "shouldn't have an impact on a woman's right to choose." She explained that "over the history of the church, this is an issue of controversy." Ignoring both embryology and the Vatican, she insisted on giving the impression that abortion is somehow an open, undecided question in the Roman Catholic Church.
But, as Chaput, author of the new book Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, explained in an interview with National Review Online last week, "Abortion always, deliberately kills an innocent unborn child. Nobody can honestly claim to be a faithful Catholic and then support a false 'right' to abortion; it's just an elegant way of evading the brutality of what abortion actually does." He explained, "Abortion is never morally justified."
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From Creative Minority Report:
I'm going out on a limb here but I'll bet that's the only time Pelosi quotes Augustine during this campaign season.I find it amusing in a retching vomit-inducing way that Pelosi runs for spiritual shelter on this question. Brokaw didn't ask about her religion. You know those Democrats, always bringing their religion into politics. Brokaw asked Pelosi when "life" began? Duh! Is there any question about that scientifically? Life begins at conception. On that, there is no dispute.
The only question is whether it should be considered human enough to warrant rights such as the right not to be killed for $320 at ten weeks old. But Pelosi runs from the science on this issue and attempts to camouflage her casualness towards life and death in mystery and the spiritual realm. But that's not what was asked.
As science has progressed, it is the pro-lifers who have continued to embrace the science on this issue, despite the label of being anti-science. The pro-choicers like Pelosi wish that anything that occurs inside a woman's womb remains a mystery. They want you to remain just as ignorant as the people were in the Middle Ages. There they go again, trying to drag us back to the Middle Ages, once again. They still want you to believe them when they say it's just a clump of cells despite the pictures you see everywhere of babies smiling in the womb.
Shame on Nancy!! She had such an opportunity to teach and to lead - or even to start a real discussion - and all she could do was toe her party's line.
Wake up America - if Pelosi lies so blatantly about this, how can you trust her with ANYTHING?
See also Pelosi lies #2
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"If you're Catholic and you disagree with your Church. What do you do? You change your mind."
While I am not a Catholic, this was the concept I clung to when I first became a Christian. So many things that I believed just didn't "gel" with Christianity, but it occurred to me: If our God is the God of the universe, doesn't He get to make the rules?
There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Proverbs 14:12
So true.
Posted by: Michelle Potter | August 25, 2008 12:29 PM
Anyone who has set foot in a Catholic Church and actually listened can say that Ms. Pelosi is either really stupid or a pathological liar. When did the church ever waiver on this set-in-stone Church doctrine?
You would think that Ms. Pelosi would have a vested interest as coming off as smart or at least sincere. This can't be good for her own career.
I am always left to wonder if the democrats ever do the number crunching on the 40+million unborn missing from the voter registry. Maybe they could have mustered an electable candidate from those people who never got the chance to become registered democrats.
Posted by: Kelly | August 25, 2008 1:28 PM
The Catholic Church should excommunicate Pelosi!!!
Posted by: Milt Smith | August 25, 2008 1:28 PM
The comment about this likely being the only time she'll bring Augustine into the campaign reminded me of this:
“When asked what America’s greatest moral failing was, theological Obama said it was our collective failure to ‘abide by that basic precept in [the Book of] Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.’ For Obama the politician, such scriptural quotations often serve as an all-inclusive writ to impose his religious views on others when it comes to fighting poverty, global warming, racism, etc. But when the question turns to abortion, political Obama insists on a policy of moral agnosticism and political laissez-faire.” —Jonah Goldberg
Posted by: Marian | August 25, 2008 1:52 PM
When Obama says "least of my brothers" he means the least that can actually vote. Why waste time of the non-voting leasts?
Posted by: Kelly | August 25, 2008 3:29 PM
I thought it was interesting that she also supported birth contol. Last time I checked, that was pretty clearly not supported by the Catholic Church as well. I know this and I'm not even Catholic!
Posted by: Angela | August 25, 2008 9:28 PM
