{"id":1955,"date":"2007-10-11T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/10\/nancy-pelosi-prayer-warrior.html"},"modified":"2007-10-11T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T11:05:00","slug":"nancy-pelosi-prayer-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/10\/nancy-pelosi-prayer-warrior.html","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi, prayer warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Beliefnet, David Kuo<\/a> has posted this snippet from the Sunday talk shows. It’s House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the subject of prayer: <\/p>\n

<\/a> WALLACE: You said the other day that you were praying for President Bush to change his mind about vetoing SCHIP. Do you pray for our soldiers to win in Iraq?<\/p>\n

PELOSI: Of course I do.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: To win?<\/p>\n

PELOSI: Of course I do. Of course. What a question. First of all, I pray for President Bush all the time, and I–prayed especially hard that he would sign the…children’s health bill, because it’s so important to America’s children.<\/p>\n

WALLACE: When you pray for President Bush, what do you pray for?<\/p>\n

PELOSI: I pray that, that–well, at the same time as I pray for him, I pray for America’s children, and that there can be some compatibility in their thinking. But I pray for his health; his well-being. I pray that he makes the right decisions for the American people, but, when I was–<\/p>\n

WALLACE: –Do you ever pray for him to change his policies?<\/p>\n

PELOSI: All the time! But–let me draw a line: When I was growing up in politics, we were always told that we shouldn’t pray for a political outcome — that we just pray that God’s will would be done. We pray for the children, we pray for the poor people, we pray for people who need help; and we always, always, always pray for our men and women in uniform, who make our freedom to pray possible. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that certainly makes me feel better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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