Remember Nancy Pelosi, with all her arguments as to why she couldn't work to oppose abortion… how it was an issue of pushing one's beliefs on someone else? How she said:
"I have some concerns about the church's position respecting a woman's right to choose," Pelosi responds. "I am a practicing Catholic, although they're probably not too happy about that. But it is my faith."
"I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions," she continues. "And that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will."
The irony is, when it comes to the Cap and Trade and energy conservation, Pelosi has said:
As you may know about me, I am fairly agnostic about the means to the end in terms of what mechanism is used. What we want, though, is to have a result. The job that the bill must do is have a result that we reduce our dependence on foreign oil as a national security issue; that we reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, wherever they originate, as a health and environmental issue; that we proceed with innovation so that we can be number one, continue to be number one in the world in innovation, competitiveness, by creating new green jobs for the future.
It is a defense, a security issue, a health issue, an environmental issue, it is an economic issue, and it is a moral issue for us to honor the obligation we have to pass this planet on to future generations intact. And if you believe, as I do, that it is also that this is God's beautiful creation, we have a moral responsibility to preserve it.
So, what if I'm pro-choice on strip mining? On Nuclear Waste in Yucca Mountain? What if I think we should turn the Alaska Wildlife Preserve into a parking lot for the oil exploitation? What if I think we should expand oil excavation, not diminish it?
Why do we have a "moral responsibility" to preserve creation, but not the "moral responsibility" to protect life? Why is it ok to invoke God for the latter, but not the former? Why should people have the freedom to abort, but not to do what they want with environmental issues on their own property?
This is Pelosi's inconsistency, her hypocrisy. She cannot refuse her religious obligation when it comes to a topic she disagrees with, while invoking it on a topic she likes and avoid the label of hypocrite.
So, how would Pelosi respond to these (slightly reworded) slogans after the BP debacle?
- Pro-Choice (on Oil Excavation)!
- Don't force your environmentalism on me!
- Oil Excavation should be a decision between a CEO and His stockholders!
- We don't know when pollution begins!
- If you're Opposed to Oil Excavation, Don't Excavate!
- My Land, My Choice!
- I'm Personally Opposed to Oil Excavation, but I don't want to Force My Beliefs on Others!
- Trust Oil Execs!
- Keep Your Rosaries off my Oil Wells!
- Against Oil Excavation? Walk!
- Oil Execs should have that opportunity to exercise their free will.
All of these are pro-abortion slogans, slightly reworded except the last which is Pelosi's own statement with "Women" replaced by "Oil execs." Like the pro-abortion slogans, all of these are guilty of the same error: Saying something which affects others is only a matter of personal choice, and that those who are opposed have no say in the matter.
Either Pelosi is a anti-choice (on oil) zealot, or she needs to seriously rethink her reasoning. if Pelosi wants to invoke God and mention her Catholicism, she must be consistent in her behavior. She may be quite sincere in her wanting to clean up the environment, but she is blind to the irony of her behavior.
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