Not that long ago before Trump jumped in front of the band of manufactured race based rwnj faux ‘populism’ (birtherism) we’re witnessing today, Joy-Ann Reid untwisted and laid bare the hypocrisy of the white evangelical movement and it’s backlash against the first AA President Barack Obama.
Here is a transcript of that program (February 10th, 2015):
Joy-Ann Reid gently untwists what republicans like Huckabee hide: religious hypocrisy
This morning Joy-Ann Reid’s guests are three religious leaders that are telling the truth about the continued corruption of religion as a vehicle of oppression. Bishop Dr. William Barber, Bishop Michael Curry, and reformed evangelical Frank Schaeffer. Each with an important message in these times — imo
This is the title of the segment:
Sessions misuses Bible to justify separating children from migrant parents
— June 16th, 2018
Attorney General Jeff Sessions quoted the bible to justify separating children from migrant parents, but experts call his quote a misuse, citing that Jesus himself was a refugee.
Joy Reid and her panel discuss the evangelical Christian community supporting Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
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— RESIST, and do it:
— I hope many more people have their hearts opened up in these times like I did for the first time this deeply, in many years, enough to resist what is happening in this country. Cruelty and all that has become of it is not our "Manifest Destiny”