Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Pelosi Explains Bible Verse

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is blaming a San Francisco priest for her press release that made reference to a Bible verse that lead to accusations she made it up. In her Earth Day message, Pelosi wrote, "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.'” But the reference is not found directly in Scripture. A spokesman now says Pelosi "heard a priest quote the verse many years ago during a mass in San Francisco" and that her remark is actually a paraphrase of Genesis 2:15. It reads, "Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it."

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