Both Attorney General (for the time being) Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (you have to include the "III" -- it's part of his heritage) and press secretary (for the time being) and preacher's daughter Sarah Huckabee Sanders (your number 1 source for fake news) are appealing to Scripture to justify the Trump regime's unconscionable policy of separating children from parents seeking asylum. Adam L. Silverman as a good post on the whole thing at Balloon Juice -- with lots of quotes from the aforementioned Bible that completely destroy the two holier-than-thous.
(Do click through and read Betty Cracker's post as well -- evidence that this is too much for even the White House press corps.)
A couple of thoughts:
Romans was written by Paul, who never met Jesus and never heard him preach. Paul was also the first in a long line of Grifters for Christ.
Second, Huckabee Sanders, of course, blamed the whole thing on "loopholes that the Democrats refuse to close." And you must take advantage of loopholes, no matter how reprehensible the results, mustn't you?
And as Silverman points out, the Bible is repleted with exhortations to "welcome the stranger." If you want to bring the Bible into it.
Oh, and by the way -- just how is the Christian Bible applicable to American civil law? Anyone?
As BettyC mentioned earlier, both Attorney General Sessions and Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, decided to take their religion out and wave it around in everyone’s faces today. This was done to justify the change in policy that the President, via Attorney General Sessions, made in 2017 that children will be separated from their parents if they either present themselves for asylum or enter the US without documentation. The White House Press Secretary defaulted to the more generic argument that throughout the Bible it is asserted that laws should be followed. The Attorney General decided to (mis)apply Romans 13 to justify the unjustifiable.
(Do click through and read Betty Cracker's post as well -- evidence that this is too much for even the White House press corps.)
A couple of thoughts:
Romans was written by Paul, who never met Jesus and never heard him preach. Paul was also the first in a long line of Grifters for Christ.
Second, Huckabee Sanders, of course, blamed the whole thing on "loopholes that the Democrats refuse to close." And you must take advantage of loopholes, no matter how reprehensible the results, mustn't you?
And as Silverman points out, the Bible is repleted with exhortations to "welcome the stranger." If you want to bring the Bible into it.
Oh, and by the way -- just how is the Christian Bible applicable to American civil law? Anyone?
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