Sen. and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) known as out Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson for weaponizing Christianity and utilizing it to divide us.
Warnock mentioned of Johnson criticizing Biden for marking Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday:
Apparently, the speaker finds trans folks abhorrent and I believe he ought to consider that the actual fact of the matter is as you mentioned, March thirty first has been a de to raise up transgender individuals who endure violence and bigotry Easter, the date modifications each single day (yr), however this is only one extra occasion of parents who’ve who have no idea methods to lead us attempting to divide us. And that is the other of the Christian religion.
Jesus centered the marginalized. He centered it the poor and in a second like this, we’d like voices, significantly voices of religion, who would use our religion, not as a weapon to beat different folks down, however as a bridge to convey all of us collectively. That’s what martin Luther King Junior did And I’m honored to evangelise from that pulpit each single day. It’s a religion that guides me in my work. As a United States senator attempting to cap the price of insulin so of us can afford it. Making an attempt to verify first-time owners should purchase a house and that our kids are usually not so a washed in scholar debt that they’ve a mortgage earlier than they’ve a mortgage.
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Sen. and Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) on Speaker Mike Johnson utilizing Christianity as a weapon to assault President Biden, “This is just one more instance of folks who have who do not know how to lead us trying to divide us. And this is the opposite of the Christian faith.” pic.twitter.com/FSAfMGXf9D
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 31, 2024
The nation wants extra voices of religion to push again in opposition to the warping of Christianity to suit a political agenda, and even worse disguising authoritarian Christian nationalism within the language of Christianity when what its advocates are attempting to do is each anti-democratic and un-Christian.
Rev. Warnock is an precise man of religion. Mike Johnson makes use of religion to justify an extremist political agenda.
Speaker Mike Johnson is instance of why increasingly more People are turning away from Christianity, as a result of the extremist right-wing voices are the loudest within the dialogue and the more and more People are rejecting proper wing bigotry and division disguised as religion.
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