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A top Vatican official yesterday declared that Rep. Nancy Pelosi should be denied communion because of her support for abortion rights. Raymond Cardinal Leo Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura in Rome — the Vatican’s Supreme Court — slammed the California Democrat for “obstinately” persisting in grave sin by supporting the policy, even “after repeated admonitions.” …

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was heckled and booed at this weekend’s Netroots Nation convention when she said that Edward Snowden broke the law. Via Politico: As Pelosi was saying the country needs a “balance” between security and privacy, Marc Perkel, a 57-year-old activist from Gilroy, Calif., started shouting at Pelosi during her answer and was escorted out of the …

Almost half of the sitting members of Congress today filed a joint Supreme Court brief in the support of the overturn of DOMA. Via press release: Today, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Ranking Constitution Subcommittee Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) in the House, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in the Senate, along with …

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After teasing the press with hints that she might be stepping down, today Rep. Nancy Pelosi told the House Democratic Caucus that she will stay Minority Leader. According to a Democratic aide, Leader Pelosi told members of her caucus, “They say a picture is worth a million words. Well, this picture is worth millions of aspirations of the American people. …

According to multiple reports, Rep. Nancy Pelosi is preparing to step down tomorrow as House Minority Leader. “I love you all very dearly, but I thought I’d tell my caucus first,” Pelosi told reporters Tuesday. Pelosi has held the top slot among Democrats in the House for 10 years, a decade that saw her lead her party to control of …

From GOP House candidate John Dennis: “John’s campaign is not just against Nancy Pelosi, against the status quo of ever growing government and empire, but, most importantly, FOR the return of a society that values individual liberty as the end of all political action. Together we are sure to make a difference and advance our shared cause.” (Tipped by JMG …

Immigration Equality is thrilled: Immigration Equality today praised the Obama Administration, and specifically the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), for new, written guidance that will extend discretionary relief to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) immigrants with U.S. citizen spouses and partners. The new written directive, which was announced in response to a Congressional letter spearheaded by Minority Leader Nancy …

I just wanted my picture taken while Nancy Pelosi was at the podium. Then DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz came out of nowhere for the photobomb. It would be even funnier if the picture was in focus.

Yesterday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a coalition of 81 House Democrats issued a call for the Obama administration to make it official policy that the foreign partners of LGBT Americans will not be deported. Chris Geidner reports: Pelosi — along with Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Mike Honda, the lead sponsors of two bills aimed at addressing LGBT inequalities …

That is, IF the Democrats win back the House. “First of all, we can expect something to go away, like stop spending taxpayer dollars on the Defense of Marriage of Act, which is a waste of money and not the right thing to do,” Pelosi said. Pelosi had previously criticized House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) for taking on defense of …

Video by Sean Chapin. Have you visited the AIDS Memorial Grove? Make a point of doing so on your next visit to San Francisco, it’s unspeakably moving.

Buzzfeed reports that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has joined the growing list of prominent Democrats who have gone public with their hope for a Hillary 2016 presidential candidacy. “I would love to see Secretary Clinton become the nominee for President in 2016,” Pelosi said during an appearance in the 92nd Street Y in New York City Sunday night. “I …