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Archbishop Of Washington rebukes Pelosi and Biden: Church Drs do not know??

August 27th, 2008 • Richard Cochrane
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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE…

Barack Obama is trailing or is tied with John McCain and his lead in the Electoral College is collapsing and now stands at just 10 electoral votes. Nowhere is Obama more vulnerable than among Catholic voters where he trails McCain by up to a dozen points.

That and his inexperience provoked him to pick a Catholic for VP but that pick has only added to Obama’s weakening standing in the polls.

Irked by pro-choice Democrats who tout their Catholicism, the archbishop of Washington is chiding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for misstating church history and the archbishop of Denver is warning vice presidential hopeful Joe Biden not to take Communion.

Pelosi and Biden both support a no fault abortion policy, and revelations that Obama had repeatedly voted to support abortionist killing babies born alive after botched abortions.

Obama touched off a firestorm during the SADDLEBACK CHURCH FORUM when asked about when life begins saying, “Whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade.” When McCain was asked the same question he said, “At conception.”

Irked by pro-choice Democrats who tout their Catholicism, the Archbishop of Washington is chiding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for misstating church history and the archbishop of Denver is warning vice presidential hopeful Joe Biden not to take Communion. Pelosi kicked Catholics in the face by saying, provoking the sharp reply from the archbishops.

“As an ardent, practicing Catholic, this is an issue that I have studied for a long time,” Pelosi told NBC’s Tom Brokaw, who had asked her when life begins. “And what I know is, over the centuries, the doctors of the church have not been able to make that definition. And St. Augustine said at three months. We don’t know.”

For his part Biden, whose pick by Obama as VP is increasingly seen as a blunder, has a long history of foot-in-mouth disease and has frequently offended Catholics.

With friends like these Obama doe not need more enemies.

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