By Fr. Dwight Longenecker,
I have to hand it to Nancy Pelosi. The “Venom Masquerading as Virtue” line is a good one. I’m always a sucker for alliteration.
That’s where my admiration ends.
In this article Pope
Pelosi, who last year received the Margaret Sanger Eugenicist of the
Year Award, now presumes to correct Archbishop Salvator Cordileone for
planning to attend the march in Washington to defend marriage.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi took the lead this week in a high-profile lobbying effort to pressure San Francisco ArchbishopSalvatore Cordileone not to attend the controversial March for Marriage event, which she characterized as “venom masquerading as virtue.”
Pelosi, who is one of
the country’s most powerful Catholic politicians, made a passionate
appeal to the archbishop in a letter obtained by The Chronicle not to participate in theNational Organization for Marriage‘s June 19 march on the Supreme Court in Washington.
Cordileone, who is one
of the featured speakers at the event, was a leader in the campaign for
Proposition 8, the 2008 California anti-gay-marriage initiative.
“We share our love of
the Catholic faith and our city of San Francisco,” Pelosi wrote to
Cordileone, who, as head of the 560,000-member Archdiocese of San
Francisco, has become the Catholic bishops’ point man against gay
marriage. She urged him to abandon an event in which some of the
participants show “disdain and hate towards LGBT persons.”
from Courageous Priest
