House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke her silence earlier this week after San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone banned her from taking communion due to the \u201cgrave evil she is perpetrating\u201d on the abortion front.<\/p>\n
The curious, some might say bizarre, segment on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d opened Tuesday with host Joe Scarborough pondering how \u201cdisconcerting\u201d it is to see religious leaders deny communion \u201cover a political issue that Jesus never once mentioned in the Gospels.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scarborough said Christ declined to discuss abortion despite being \u201cboth a political and a philosophical issue in Ancient Greece and Rome when Jesus was alive.\u201d The idea that Jesus had no position on any issue he didn\u2019t explicitly mention in Scripture is strange. The Bible is overwhelmingly clear about not committing murder and helping the most innocent.<\/p>\n
Scarborough continued, \u201c[Jesus] told his disciples in Matthew 25 that we would be welcomed into the kingdom of heaven if we gave water to the thirsty, fed the hungry, clothed the poor, and brought hope to the hopeless. We were to lead with forgiveness and love.\u201d<\/p>\n
After\u00a0Scarborough invited Pelosi on the air following his Bible-themed monologue, she dove right in. She mentioned Scarborough\u2019s invocation of Matthew and offered a peculiar rebuke of some of the people \u201cwho side\u201d with the church on abortion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for referencing the Gospel of Matthew, which is sort of the agenda of the church that is rejected by many who side with them on terminating a pregnancy,\u201d Pelosi said, without really identifying what she meant. No one on the other end asked for clarification. The House speaker proceeded to seemingly lament\u00a0Cordileone\u2019s communion decision, slamming it as \u201cnot consistent with the Gospel of Matthew.\u201d<\/p>\n