Pro tip: If you’re the speaker at a prayer breakfast and you’re almost late and you have to give a “TMI” reason for it, don’t.
Alas, this advice comes too late for Rep. Nancy Mace. The South Carolina Republican was speaking at a prayer breakfast for her Palmetto State colleague, GOP presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott, on Thursday on Capitol Hill.
However, she was almost a bit late for the Judeo-Christian prayer breakfast. (Did you get that this is a prayer breakfast? Let me say it again, bolded and in italics: prayer breakfast. As in, religious.) She came with an excuse, though. Her fiancee — as in, the man she is not yet married to — wanted to have sex and she had to escape his grasp.
“When I woke up this morning at 7, I was getting picked up at 7:45, Patrick, my fiancee, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed,” she told the audience.
“And I was like, ‘No, baby, we don’t got time for that this morning,’” she added. “I gotta get to the prayer breakfast, and I gotta be on time.”
“A little TMI,” she concluded, to laughs. “He can wait, I’ll see him later tonight.”
Nancy Mace at Tim Scott’s prayer breakfast:
“I woke up this morning at 7, Patrick my fiancé tried to pull me by my waist in bed and I was like ‘no baby we don’t have time for that this morning’ I gotta get to the prayer breakfast… He can wait. I’ll see him later tonight.” pic.twitter.com/LzAJ5M84P1
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 27, 2023
Yet again: prayer breakfast!
Now, let’s be clear that the Bible is pretty explicit — more explicit than Mace, even — on the issue of sex before marriage, whether it be in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 22, for instance) or the New Testament (take 1 Corinthians 7).
Pretty much every flavor of Abrahamic religion, in fact, is clear on…
