Last week Mary DeTurris Poust named Nancy Pelosi the “Worst Amateur Theologian of 2009“, and for good reason. In case you missed Madam Speaker’s latest display of colossal ignorance, here is what she said to Eleanor Clift for Newsweek’s year-end issue:

“I have some concerns about the church’s position respecting a woman’s right to choose. I have some concerns about the church’s position on gay rights. I am a practicing Catholic, although they’re probably not too happy about that. But it is my faith. I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that is that we are all endowed with, a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. And that women should have that opportunity to exercise their free will.”

Elizabeth Lev says it all, so I don’t have to.

To be fair, though, Pelosi does have at least one thing right – we will all have to answer for our actions. Among the things we will be held accountable for: ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did (did not do) for one of these least brothers of mine, you did (did not do) for me.’

You know, I say ignorance, but at this point the woman clearly knows what the Church’s teaching is and chooses to defy it in favor of her own false theology. In which case, it’s not so much ignorance as it is arrogance.

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