Pelosi wants the Church to preach Pro Illegal Immigration from the Pulpit

From: Gary L. Bauer

The Left Has No Shame

As the leader of her party in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi frequently speaks out in support of a leftwing agenda that includes abortion-on-demand and same-sex marriage. Whenever a pastor or rabbi objects to abortion-on-demand or men “marrying” other men, liberal politicians like Nancy Pelosi lecture them on the “separation of church and state.” But Nancy Pelosi recently found an issue on which she demanded church leaders speak out – “amnesty” for millions of illegal immigrants.

Recently, Pelosi addressed a conference at Trinity Washington University. On the subject of amnesty, Pelosi said the following: “The cardinals, the archbishops, the bishops that come to me ... say, ‘We want you to pass immigration reform,’ and I said, ‘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.”

I’m not sure what Ms. Pelosi is reading, but it is surely not the Gospels. There is nothing Christian about rewarding lawlessness while penalizing millions of people waiting to enter our country legally. It is not biblical to use the power of government to take the hard-earned money of millions of American families and redistribute it by force of law to others.

I suspect that many men and women of faith would strongly object to Nancy Pelosi’s view that tolerating criminal behavior – ILLEGAL immigration – is a “manifestation of our living the Gospels.” But Pelosi’s statement is also evidence of the Left’s hypocrisy. It has no problem mixing religion and politics, as long as it promotes a leftwing agenda. But if conservative pastors, priests or rabbis dare to speak up, “tolerant” liberals like Pelosi accuse them of intruding into areas that religion should not enter.