House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is fond of quoting a particular passage of Scripture. The quote, however, does not appear in the Bible and is "fictional," according to biblical scholars.
In her April 22 Earth Day news release, Pelosi said, "The Bible tells us in the Old Testament, 'To minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship. To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.' On this Earth Day, and every day, let us pledge to our children, and our children's children, that they will have clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and the opportunity to experience the wonders of nature."
Of course I'm for clean air and water. I just wish MS Pelosi would not try to quote from a book she knows nothing about. Try actually reading it, you might find it enlightening.
I'm just saying
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Might I remind you: Polygamy is not legal. These girls and women were not married legally to the men who were claiming them as wives. So techinically those men are having extramarital affairs and the children are illegitimate and if the woman is not agreeable to the 'affair' she is technically being raped. By being kept pregnant and moneyless, they are essentially hostage slaves, sex and otherwise. The men cannot or do not want to support the women they want to claim as wives and have sex with and have children with and so they claim poverty and live off welfare. How does that set wtih you? The girls are easy to marry off but the teen boys are kicked out into a world that they have been taught was evil. How are they supposed to make a go of it there, physically and emotionally and spiritually? Do you advocate this devaluing of women and boy children? Just because it is religion-based, do you really support it to that point? It needs to be stopped somehow and that they police got it so wrong is no surprise - the police and the military are trained of like mind and practice and of course they do not know how to handle something like this. But instead of advocating that they be left alone, your kind should be advocating that they be treated properly and that police get better training in sociologican and psychological issues. You are trying to make it into some victm thing it is not because it is a religion thing and you want to be aligned with them somehow. It is all wrong. Read the book Escape before you pass any more jusgement about how they should have been left alone.
uh, frank, i think you put that one iin the wrong place there. I'd tend to agree but it ain't got nothing to do with Pelosi quoting the bible, so which *I* would like to say that it concerns me less that she misquotes, as I would say she is paraphrasing, and if you punctuate the sentence differently, she is more or less correct. the bible does have something in there about telling us to have dominion over the earth which i was taught meant to take care of it, not dominate it, but to take responsibility for it like a parent had dominion over their kids and their home. so she is paraphrasing a concept that is there in the bible, no? However, it bugs the heck out of *ME* that she is trying to justify policy be bible paraphrasing as that is no reason to enact laws or policies. she should be quoting science and benefit to humans in giving her reasons, NOT quoting OR paraphrasing the BIBLE. separation os church and state is SO under attack in this country and everyone will figure that out when it means their own particular brand is out of favor because some other one is in favor. SEPARATE.
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