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Jim Wallis Issues Rebuke of Zimmerman Acquittal: ‘Racial Profiling Is a Sin in the Eyes of God’
The Blaze ^ | July 16, 2013 | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 07/16/2013 7:27:16 AM PDT by Alex Murphy

Progressive faith leader Jim Wallis joined in on issuing commentary in the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal. In a Huffington Post blog piece entitled, “Lament From a White Father,” he alleged that, had shooting victim Trayvon Martin been white, he would still be alive today. Wallis also pleaded with Caucasians — and parents, in particular — to “listen, to learn, and to speak out” about the tragic death.

Race, he contended, was at the center of the incident from the start.

“If my white 14-year-old son Luke had walked out that same night, in that same neighborhood, just to get a snack, he would have come back to his dad unharmed — and would still be with me and Joy today,” Wallis wrote. “Everyone, being honest with ourselves, knows that is true.”

The Sojourners leader went on to call it “a political, legal and moral mistake” not to ensure that the trial focused upon race, as he believes that this was the root cause that inevitably led to Martin’s death. In fact, Wallis overtly accused Zimmerman of having racially profiled the 17-year-old victim.

“[Martin Luther] King’s dream failed on February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Fla., when George Zimmerman decided to follow Trayvon Martin because of the color of his skin,” he added. “This led to a confrontation in which a child was killed by an adult who got away with it, because of the way Florida laws were written and interpreted.”

Wallis went on to say that “racial profiling is a sin in the eyes of God” and he described the “systematic injustice” that he believes is at play in American society — a system that he contended puts African Americans at a disadvantage. He described the case as providing a window into “an utterly segregated society.”

While Wallis called for the acceptance of the verdict, the faith leader also said that the case’s meaning must be explored, particular when it comes to its societal impact.


TOPICS: Other Christian; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: jimwallis; profiling; racism; religiousleft; sojourners; zimmerman
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To: Alex Murphy

Dear Jim Wallis:

Sometimes it is better to STFU than to say something stupid and prove yourself an idiot.

Why don’t you drive over to a black neighborhood one day and turn your son loose in that neighborhood to go buy some Skittles.

See if he comes back alive.


41 posted on 07/16/2013 7:48:43 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Alex Murphy
Progressive faith leader Jim Wallis

I read the Bible myself, but I would like to know, what exactly is a progressive faith leader?

42 posted on 07/16/2013 7:49:46 AM PDT by Mark17 (My body is in California, but my heart is in the Philippines.)
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To: Alex Murphy
"Faith Leader!" Sounds more like just another crack-pot. Or does he claim to have witnessed something in Florida on the night when the incident occurred? Otherwise, the "Faith Leader" has jumped to conclusions. If nothing else, he is acting as a "false witness," vilifying others, who I suspect that he has never even met.

It would be interesting to hear this "Faith Leader," debate with any real Godly man. But in the meanwhile, he will doubtless continue to get encouraging publicity, so long as he mouths the same hateful rant as do so many in the mainstream media.

William Flax

43 posted on 07/16/2013 7:49:51 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Alex Murphy
Wallis is a fraud. He's a Communist who cynically abuses the tenets of Christian faith to further his desire to fundamentally change America into a godless gulag.

God is not progressive. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. The Lord decides what is sin and what is righteousness.

A real Christian, if he believed that Zimmerman had sinned, would have called him to confession and repentance. This would have shown true Christian love and forgiveness as there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.

Instead, Wallis uses the jargon of phony "progressive" faith to beat Zimmerman rhetorically. This is truly a sin before God.

Wallis is acting like a Pharisee and should himself confess and repent.

45 posted on 07/16/2013 7:50:56 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne ("How long, O Lord, holy and true?" - Rev. 6:10)
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To: Alex Murphy

Progressive faith leader, talk about Christian extremists trying to shove their morality down our throats. IMO they are just as phony as the Westboro Baptist Church.


46 posted on 07/16/2013 7:51:05 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Alex Murphy

After seeing the uncivilized criminal behavior of “certain” people last night, I will never go around them or feel safe in their presence again.


47 posted on 07/16/2013 7:51:05 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Jim Wallis - the scripture speaks often of establishing the truth of an accusation by the word of two or three witnesses. Please produce your witnesses regarding your accusation of racial profiling - or stop accusing anybody else of sin.

Oh - and remember what the scripture says about bearing false witness.


48 posted on 07/16/2013 7:51:33 AM PDT by GilesB
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To: Dr. Thorne
Wallis is a fraud. He's a Communist who cynically abuses the tenets of Christian faith to further his desire to fundamentally change America into a godless gulag.

Just like Jim Jones.

49 posted on 07/16/2013 7:52:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Alex Murphy

So’s homosexuality, Wallis... yet you seem to have no problem with that.

And BTW, fool... Zimmerman didn’t engage in racial profiling, so shove that idea up your Holder.


50 posted on 07/16/2013 7:55:52 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberal is to patriotism as Kermit Gosnell is to neonatal care.)
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To: Mr. K

If a car with 4 young white guys inside is in the hood, driving around slowly on a Friday night, will they get pulled over or at least watched? In 1986 I was at the Canadian border, ironically at St. Stephen. The driver and I were both in our 20s and had long hair. He had Dead stickers on his car. We were waved over and searched. I was released, but my friend spent a few months in Canadian jail. We were obviously profiled.


51 posted on 07/16/2013 7:56:26 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Alex Murphy

““If my white 14-year-old son Luke had walked out that same night, in that same neighborhood, just to get a snack, he would have come back to his dad unharmed”

No sh*t, Sherlock. Now if your son went to Crenshaw Blvd here in L.A. late at night, let’s talk what happens afterwards.


52 posted on 07/16/2013 8:00:04 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: max americana

Isn’t punching someone in the face and banging his head on the sidewalk also a Sin in the Eyes of God?


53 posted on 07/16/2013 8:04:05 AM PDT by IM2MAD (IM2MAD=Individual Motivated 2 Make A Difference)
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To: Alex Murphy
George and Trayvon are a blank slate upon which the Left is drawing their hopes and dreams of a Utopian society of which they are in charge.

Being in charge. That's the important thing.

54 posted on 07/16/2013 8:07:02 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: max americana

We were told by a black guy to never walk in North Philly at night. He told us that we would be killed because we were right. We live in Laurel, Md. A young black man would be 100% safer walking through my neighborhood at night than a young white man would be walking through Shipley Terrace in DC in broad daylight.


55 posted on 07/16/2013 8:08:34 AM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: IM2MAD

“Isn’t punching someone in the face and banging his head on the sidewalk also a Sin in the Eyes of God?”

Yes, 100% correct. Unfortunately, this Wallis clown has a medical condition called liberal white guilt so every white person he sees is a sinner to the 10th degree.


56 posted on 07/16/2013 8:13:23 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: don-o
"Replay the scenario with [white teenager] Luke cold cocking a stranger in the dark..."

That is almost ipsissima verbi what I said.

Scary we think so much alike.

57 posted on 07/16/2013 8:17:45 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. " - Rita Rudner)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
That is almost ipsissima verbi what I said. Scary we think so much alike.

Testify!

Love the tag xoxoxo

58 posted on 07/16/2013 8:20:11 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory, and He will not be mocked! Blessed be the Name of the Lord forever!)
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To: Alex Murphy

In Wallis’s cockeyed world, abortion is not a sin but “racial profiling” is.


59 posted on 07/16/2013 8:20:38 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Alex Murphy
...had shooting victim Trayvon Martin been white, he would still be alive today

Probably so, because he wouldn't have been indoctrinated into a thug culture that demanded he go after the "cracker." Of course, had be been white, he still could certainly have been a complete jackass and been just as stupid, but he wouldn't have had an entire culture based on his skin color egging him on.

60 posted on 07/16/2013 8:21:12 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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