The Gospel According to Pelosi

Think of the three or four words that most aptly describe the Left, and the word “secular” would certainly be among them. A defining trend of the last two generations is that as culture war issues related to human life, family and religious freedom have emerged, the Left’s willingness to talk about faith has faded. In fact, for them, faith was an invalid viewpoint to include in any debate.

It is therefore interesting that whenever liberal politicians do find their religious voices they try to wrap their big government, socialist agenda in the adornment of Christianity. Other than Barack Obama, few liberals are as proficient at the shameless use of religion as Nancy Pelosi.

House Speaker Pelosi has urged the Catholic Church to speak up about the need for immigration reform that includes amnesty for the 12 million illegal immigrants living in America. Speaking at a conference recently, she revealed that she often tells Catholic priests and bishops, “I want you to speak about it from the pulpit. Some (who) oppose immigration reform are sitting in those pews, and you have to tell them that this is a manifestation of our living the Gospels.”

Ms. Pelosi must be reading the Democrat Party platform because she surely is not reading the Gospels. Our immigration system is broken, but the Democrats’ reform plan, which would reward lawlessness and penalize millions of people waiting to enter our country legally, is not the self-evidently Christian response.

Pelosi’s God talk isn’t confined to immigration. Talking about climate change legislation at a recent press conference, Pelosi said, “I think it’s essential to the health of our children that we reduce emissions in the air. And for those of us who believe—and I think most of us do—that this is God’s creation, we have a moral responsibility...

> “I think it’s essential to the health of our children
> that we reduce emissions in the air. And for those of us
> who believe—and I think most of us do—that this is God’s
> creation, we have a moral responsibility...

OK, “brain”, what are you going to do about God’s volcanos, which spew more CO2, beside genuinely harmful gasses, and particulate matter into the atmosphere in a few hours than man has since the dawn of the industrial age?

As for a Christian response to the illegal aliens pouring across our borders in open defiance to the law, the Bible says plainly, in 1st Peter 2:13 - 17, “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”

My parents were immigrants. They waited for YEARS before they could enter the country. Most of my 11 children are immigrants, having been adopted by us from foreign nations.

We had to obey every law, and we had to be especially careful to dot every “i” and cross every “t”, or we would not be able to bring our children home.

Lawbreakers should be offered forgiveness only if they repent. You cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless you repent. Repent means to be sincerely sorry for the sins that sent Jesus to the cross, and to purpose in your heart never to sin again, and to make restitution if possible.

These people are not only un-repentant, they are DEFIANT. They should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and, after serving their prison time, returned to where ever they came from and refused even so much as a tourist visa.

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