.@CongressmanHice said yesterday that he opens every day with the Bible, and that he’s so thankful that Jesus has taken away his sins.
Well, Rep. Hice, if you believe in the Bible, why are you against health care, living wages, and lifting the poor?
How do you read the change-your-life-daily Bible but block voting rights and helping the poor?
How can you ask God to forgive sin and not do works of repentance?
How can you not repent of the sin of policy injustice?
It’s is so hypocritical to watch this session on “National Bible Week,” as they claim they want to test every piece of legislation with God’s word. They don’t really want that, because they would be found out as sinful hypocrites, according to Matthew 23, Matthew 25, etc.
This is one of the saddest forms of hypocrisy I have ever seen displayed in the Congress by people whose policy positions are so contrary to the biblical call to love, justice, truth, and mercy.
It’s just sad, and the level of delusion is dangerous.
I wish there were other politicians there challenging these outright distortions that are being promulgated over TV without critique.
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Someone came on my Twitter recently and tried to challenge what I said about discretionary spending. At @BRepairers and @UniteThePoor we value being truthful, so if you’re going to challenge us, you better come correct.
53 cents of every discretionary dollar goes to the military and the war economy, and here is why it matters and how it hinders our people from addressing poverty and low-wealth:
Discretionary isn’t code. It describes the spending that Congress decides every year through appropriations. And military spending is by far the greatest recipient of that spending. In 2020 discretionary spending was $1.6 trillion & $714 billion of that went to military spending.
As I come here to share with the @Ch_JesusChrist, I come as a fellow faith traveler who takes seriously the Word of God and the deep moral values represented in various faith traditions—commitments to love, truth, justice, and care for one another as a matter of faith. #BYUdevo
Now, I’m no scholar of the Book of Mormon, but I’ve listened closely enough to your tradition to know that, in addition to the Scriptures we share, these values are in your texts too. I read in Mosiah 4: “Are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God”
It is clear to me that we face a crisis of possibility. A crisis of civilization. A crisis of democracy and morality that we must seek redemption from. We must believe we have in God the spiritual power to turn in new directions, towards a more beloved community.
Mr. President, Many Americans—especially those who need it the most—want to see the #BuildBackBetter plan pass as a step in the right direction toward addressing the glaring reality of 140 million poor and low-income people in this nation.
They stand ready to let their faces and stories be the narrative in support of this legislation. They are the people who need paid family & medical leave, Medicare expansion, etc.
Although thousands of poor and low-wage people and religious leaders have written you and signed petitions, we have not yet received a response from your staff.
James 5: “Now listen, you rich people, weep & wail b/c of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted ... Your gold & silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you & eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.”
We were told during the impeachment trials that Congress can do more than one thing at a time. Why aren’t we talking about voting rights, living wages, reparations, police reform, immigrant justice, climate justice, etc. now?
#AhmaudArbery’s father, Marcus Arbery: “This is everybody’s problem. This is not just a Black-white thing. When something like this happens, it hurts all of us.” #JusticeForAhmaud
The #PoorPeoplesCampaign understands the intersection between acts of racial violence like the lynching of #AhmaudArbery and the policy violence that leads to so many unnecessary deaths in this nation.
The defendants in this case are trying to use a citizen’s arrest law that protected slave patrols to justify hunting and shooting a Black man out on a jog. This is not only murder. It is also an act of terrorism that is dangerous to all Americans, not just Black people.
We must ensure justice for this family and for a nation where acts of racist terror are fueling the politics of corporate greed and attacks on democracy. #AhmaudArberyTrial