Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Are Quoting the Bible--and These Nuns Are Not Having It

[Judi Lynn]

“Give me a break,” says Sister Simone Campbell.
By John Nichols Twitter YESTERDAY 12:02 PM



Sister Simone Campbell, left, arrives in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2012. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite)

It is hard enough to keep up with the multitudinous immoralities of the Trump administration. But when the president’s aides and apologists invoked the Holy Bible to justify their noxious wrongdoing, it was enough to take your breath away. Unless you’re Sister Simone Campbell, the determined social- and economic-justice advocate who perfected her speaking-truth-to-power skills when she was challenging the austerity-and-inequality agenda of House Speaker Paul Ryan and a right-wing Congress.

Last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions utilized the Bible as a tool for defending Trump administration immigration policies. “I would cite you to [sic] the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes,” announced Sessions, as he referenced a Bible verse that was once employed as a defense for slavery. “Our policy that can result in short-term separation of families is not unusual or unjustified.”

Asked to provide the clarity that was lacking in Sessions’s statement—by a reporter who wondered, “Where does it say in the Bible that’s moral to take children away from mothers?”—White House press secretary Sarah Sanders offered an assertion of her own: “I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. That is repeated throughout the Bible.”

Yes, but is it really the purpose of the scriptures to comfort the powerful as they afflict immigrants and their children?

More:
https://www.thenation.com/article/jeff-sessions-sarah-huckabee-sanders-quoting-bible-nuns-not/

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Isn't Paul Ryan

still hiding from those same nuns?





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[saidsimplesimon]

2. Sister Simone

walks the walk, I admire her and those who support her efforts.

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Judi Lynn