*Social justice leader Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II called out the hypocrisy of President Trump, who ordered the removal of peaceful protesters so he could stand in front of a church holding a Bible, saying his policies violate the theology of both God and the Bible.
Trump’s policies and actions are both “religious hypocrisy and political insanity,” Rev. Barber said Monday night.
“Trump claims he’s using the Insurrection Act,” Rev. Barber tweeted Monday. “He (just) ordered the military to move protesters exercising their constitutional rights so he can go to church. But his policies violate the theology of the church to care for the sick, the poor, immigrants. Utter hypocrisy and insanity.”
Rev. Barber, president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, later referenced Matthew 23:23, in which Jesus says hypocrites “have neglected the more important matters of the law — justice, mercy and faithfulness.”
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Shortly before President Trump threatened to use the Insurrection Act to send federal troops to states unable to stop protests prompted originally by the death of George Floyd a week ago in Minneapolis, peaceful protesters were tear-gassed so they would clear the area.
Trump then posed, holding a Bible, in front of St. John’s Church.
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Repairers of the Breach is a nonpartisan not-for-profit organization that seeks to build a moral agenda rooted in a framework that uplifts our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country. It was founded in 2015 by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II as a way to organize, train, and work with a diverse school of prophets from every U.S. state and the District of Columbia.
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The Poor People’s Campaign: A national call for moral revival, is building a generationally transformative digital gathering called the Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington, on June 20, 2020. At that assembly, we will demand that both major political parties address the interlocking injustices of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism by implementing our Moral Agenda
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Yolanda Barksdale
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