crying and pleading please stop. house speaker nancy pelosi reacting earlier today after the archbishop of san francisco banned her from receiving communion in her home parish because of her pro-choice stand on abortion. i wonder about death penalty, which i m opposed to, so is the church but they take no action against people who may not share their view. martha: jonathon morris is a fox news contributor and theologian. good morning to you. what do you make of nancy pelosi s argument there first of all that the death penalty is not people are not withheld from communion for their stance on the death penalty? a straw man argument. there is no legislator in even the state of california nonetheless in her archdiocese of san francisco who is proposing greater laws in favor of the death penalty. what her archbishop is doing
active denial that it happened, and so if you have no awareness that it happened, if you haven t been taught the truth of history. i think you re more susceptible of an know true view of being accepted as truth. for people who think this is an abstraction, mcmin county, the school board in tennessee voted unanimously against the graphic novel maus on the family s experience in the holocaust. yeah. i i ve been i ve been told by some critics like they feel it s a straw man argument, i wish it were a straw man argument and i was in tennessee in south lake, texas, just a couple of months prior. a school board administrator saying if there were books about the holocaust in the library that there should be books about
then be engaged. sure, and that s why i say it s a straw man argument. it s constructed so that you can t do it. if you want to provide them air support, let them have more migs. if you want to provide nato aircraft to support a humanitarian convoy, do it. you heard russia s response to that, too. that any nation doing that handing over migs would then be a provocation. well, you know, it s not russia s air space. it s ukraine s air space, fredricka. and if we believe in international law, then are we going to take any risk to defend it or not? and so the way these operations have to be done is you have to put the onus for the escalation on russia. sure. if you can t do this, we can t deal with taiwan or the baltics. we have to think our way through this. i got you. and i am not arguing with you. i am simply, you know, pressing
guard. i thank the gentleman for yielding. don t let my side use the security posture as the straw man argument in this. the reality is that the equivalent of blaming the victim of a crime for the crime, and while it is important, that s not what we re here to talk about today. madam speaker, voting on a criminal contempt resolution is not the position we hoped to be in, but steve bannon went out of his way to earn this resolution before us, and now we must approve it. mr. bannon s willful disregard for the select committee subpoena demonstrates his utter contempt for the american people s right to know how the attacks on january 6 came about. he has advanced a ludicrous legal argument in support of his decision not to corroborate or comply, a decision that defies the rule of law and the american people. mr. bannon s actions put him in the center of the investigation surrounding january 6. his own words strongly suggest
as a republican, don t let my side use the security posture as the straw man argument in this. the reality is that s the equivalent of blaming the victim of a crime for the crime. and while it is important, that s not what we re here to talk about today. madam speaker, voting on a criminal contempt resolution is not the position we hoped to be in, but steve bannon went out of his way to earn this resolution before us. and now we must approve it. mr. bannon s willful disregard for the select committee subpoena demonstrates his utter contempt for the american people s right to know how the attacks on january 6th came about. he has advanced a ludicrous legal argument in support of his decision not to cooperate or comply, a decision that defies the rule of law and rejects the will of the american people. mr. bannon s reported actions put him near the center of the investigation into the events surrounding january 6th. his own words strongly suggest