Posted on 05/11/2012 4:24:30 PM PDT by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that her Catholic faith "compels" her to "be against discrimination of any kind" and thus for same-sex marriage.
A reporter asked Pelosi: “Many of the people that are opposed to gay marriage cite their religion as the reason why they're opposed. You're a Catholic that supports gay marriage. Do you believe that religion and the idea that you can support gay marriage can be separated? And how do you grapple with the idea that you support gay marriage as a Catholic?”
Pelosi responded: "My religion has, compels me--and I love it for it--to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this a form of discrimination. I think it’s unconstitutional on top of that. "
Pelosi spoke glowingly of the comments President Barack Obama made Wednesday when he said he supported same-sex marriage.
"So I think that yesterday was a great day for America because the president in a very personal, as well as presidential way, made history, and hopefully this will bring people together on the issue," Pelosi said.
Pelosi also said that the president "went a long way" in shortening the difference between the "inevitable and the inconceivable" of the introduction of same-sex “marriage.”
"It’s a matter of time. It's all about time. And on these issues, what is inevitable to some of us is inconceivable to others," she said. "And what we want to do is shorten the difference between the inevitable and the inconceivable," she continued. "And I think the president went a long way in doing that yesterday."
While opposing "unjust discrimination" against homosexuals, the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that homosexual acts are "contrary to the natural law" and can never be approved and that marriage is the sacramental union of a man and a woman.
"Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that 'homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,'" says the Catechism. "They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
"The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible," says the Catechism. "This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
"Homosexual persons are called to chastity," says the Catechism. "Sexuality is ordered to the conjugal love of man and woman."
Next from Pelosi...Jesus was just a swell teacher.
Exactly: She is a raving lunatic.
Worse: she is in charge of a party of raving lunatics.
She is f’in crazy.
Our country is being run by lunatics.God help us.
Ya know it’s bad enough that Pelosi has no idea what it means to be Catholic, but to make statements about the Catholic faith that are vile and untrue is just too much.
I know Bishops are uneasy in attacking people who they may have to go to for political favors,but at some point in time one of them MUST speak out against this crazed woman.
If she really believes she must support Mortal sin, she is a demon, or demon possessed.
It sure is.
.................Pelosi responded: “My religion has, compels me—and I love it for it—to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this a form of discrimination...................
Nancy, sit aside your priests’ confessional and tell the priest that he should take her message to the Pope.
His response will be STFU-NP!
I’m sure Archbishop Niederauer is pleased that his sit down with her after she opened her mouth about the Church supporting abortion really took hold. That was a real important lesson she learned, I reckon.
Freegards
I really doubt she can set foot safely in a church anymore.
And, my Catholic Faith 'compels' me to call Pelosi a heretic.
My Catholic faith compels me to go to confession and ask forgiveness for what I’m thinking about Nancy Peloci.
After the death of Pope Pius XIII (?) the consistory was hijacked by a group of French Cardinals. An Italian Cardinal by the name of Siri was duly elected but several minutes after those in revolt went to him and advised that though elected he could not serve. The problem was that Siri was very anti Communist and was told by the usurpers that thye Soviet Union declared that if Siri were to assume the Papacy they would kidnap and kill all Cardinals and Bishops in their jurisdiction. Believing this wild claim, Siri relinquished the Papacy. Pope John XXIII was then elected and went on to ruin the Catholic Church. Look it up.
“Pelosi responded: “My religion has, compels me—and I love it for it—to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this a form of discrimination. I think it’s unconstitutional on top of that.”
Pelosi is one sick, twisted freak.
I really want to know.
Go To Hell Nancy
She’s compelled alright. The spirit that possesses and compels her is known by exorcists in the Catholic church.
Nancy’s Catholic faith? My teachers warned us about this when I was a young child. They said watch for those who would profess to be of the catholic faith who would be of heretical origin. Nancy Pelosi is a prime example. Nobody is a better repesentative of that than Nancy Pelosi. By fifty years of lead in, they were right. She is somebody of position who is trying to lead people astray. This is great! What I was told of 50 years ago is coming true.
“Her Catholic Faith compels her...” because while she is nominally inside the Catholic Church she is at war with Christian precepts all up and down the line. In order to topple the Establishment i.e. the Church she must oppose anything the Church supports. It isn’t her “Faith.” It is, rather, her opposition to Christian Faith and her subservience to her Atheistic god, the government.
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