“Saturday Night Live” opened with this Nancy Pelosi impersonation–in which Kristen Wiig, playing the Speaker-elect, gives voice to every conservative caricature of (and fear about) Democrats, including the notion that liberals are anti-faith. “And whatever you might have heard,” Wiig says in a deadpan voice, looking directly into the camera, “the Democratic party is not anti-religion. Whether you’re a Wiccan priestess, a Druid, tantric Buddhist, servant of Moloch Lord of Fire, Presbyterian, or member of the cult of Kali, your faith will be respected, so long as no animals are harmed during your ceremonies….” Watch it here:

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