Personal, Religious, and Political Hypocrisy
The Modern Liberal may know what is wrong but they refuse to do the right thing.
It’s hypocritical for a public official who claims to be a devoted person of faith to say they are personally against abortion but they are for it when it comes to their public policymaking. The Christian church has always taught that life begins at conception and must be protected. But the extent to which religious pro-choice politicians use deception to justify their positions on abortion is astounding. Case in point: House Speakerette, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), with her fruit loopy San Francisco values, lied about Catholicism and abortion by saying, “doctors of the church” have not been able to define when life begins and that “over the history of the church, this is an issue of controversy.” She argued that the Catholic position on human life only developed in the last 50 years and that it doesn’t impact abortion in any case. This is disingenuous and shows a lack of integrity on her part.
Meeting in Vatican City, Pope Benedict XVI told Pelosi, who is one of the most prominent abortion rights politicians in America, that Catholic politicians have a duty to protect life “at all stages of its development.”
Nancy Pelosi’s liberal actions speak much louder than her pious words. Professing to be a devout Catholic and publicly endorsing abortion is double mindedness. Such a person has two minds. Wavering back and forth in everything she does is a sign of instability. A psychiatric diagnosis for this type of mental disorder is political schizophrenia. She can’t have it both ways, but then she is from San Francisco. Pelosi’s faith is compartmentalized. Where’s the integrity? Most faiths do not allow for inconsistency within its belief system. Faith is for all of life.
Church Discipline, Excommunication, and Unemployment
Pelosi intentionally misrepresented historical church teaching regarding when life begins and the evils of abortion. Why should Americans think she will be honest in representing them in the Senate? She has not only shown disrespect for historic church teaching on the issue of abortion, but also disrespect for her local church, her priest, and even the Pope. The church should consider exercising church discipline on Pelosi by denying her the Sacrament of Holy Communion. As a self-proclaimed devout Catholic and as a public political official, Pelosi has a double duty to repent for arrogantly misrepresenting to the public what her church teaches on when life begins and her support for what is an intrinsic evil — the destruction of innocent human life by abortion. If she refuses to repent, the church should excommunicate her. Beyond this, Pelosi’s stubborn refusal to bend to the will of the American people on legislative issues and changing normal House rules to ramrod tactics should cost her the Speakerette office in the Senate. Artist Edward Langley must have had liberals in mind when he said: “What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.”
Didache
Church writings identifying abortion as murder appeared as early as 70 AD in the Didache, the first written catechism of the early Christian church:
“The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child” (Didache 2:1–2 [A.D. 70]).
Tertullian, an early church father, wrote with equal clarity and force on the issue of abortion:
“In our case, a murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the fetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from the other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in its seed” (Apology 9:8 [A.D. 197]).
Integrity
The term integrity means to integrate. Once the gears of a transmission are meshed, the engine’s power is sent to the drive wheels. To prevent gears from grinding or clashing during engagement, the gears must integrate, a constant-mesh, or be fully “synchronized.”
What we hold to be true in our private lives should be integrated into our public service. What we believe and how we behave must integrate in order to have integrity. What we say and what we do must mesh or we strip our gears. America can no longer afford to elect representatives who lack integrity on important moral, social, and economic issues. Political correctness should not trump what is right.
Three Strikes and You’re Out
In the game of baseball, three strikes and you’re out. Apparently, that’s not the case when it comes to the political game Democrats play. Pelosi has three strikes against her. She missed the political ball three times and should be out of the political game.
Strike One: When the U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Syria in 2005, subsequently, no communication with that country’s government could possibly occur “without the authority of the United States.” In April of 2007, Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi — third in the line of Presidential succession — blatantly undermined U.S. foreign policy by meeting with the leader of a country that supports terrorism. Pelosi arguably committed a felony when she traveled to Syria and met behind closed doors with Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s known terrorist leader, even after President Bush asked her not to go. Pelosi committed a felony by violating the Logan Act. She should be placed on trial for violating the Logan Act, and if convicted of a felony offense, sentenced to prison for a minimum of three years without parole.
A duly elected public official does not have the privilege to blatantly undermine U.S. foreign policy by secretly or publicly meeting with a leader or leaders of a country with which the U.S. has broken off diplomatic relations. A violation of the Logan Act is a felony. Upon conviction, an offender shall be sentenced to prison for three years. A U.S. citizen’s right of free speech is protected by the First Amendment, but that applies only to private citizens.
In order to make this responsibility explicit, in 1798 President John Adams initiated the Logan Act, which forbids any American – “without authority of the United States” — to communicate with a foreign government with the intent of influencing that government’s actions in any “disputes or controversies with the United States.”
Strike Two: House Speaker Pelosi’s personal and political hypocrisy on abortion (as noted above).
Strike Three: House Speaker Pelosi accused the CIA of lying to Congress about the use of interrogation tactics, while the CIA rejects the claim.
We need political umpires in Washington who have conviction and courage to call a strike a strike when a member of the House when swings and misses. Congress must recognize the will of the people and require members of the House and Senate to play by the rules, otherwise, you’re out! This is a matter of character and integrity - not doing what is wrong and doing what is right.