Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter’s House (l) and Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas (r).
Posted on 10/30/2014 8:38:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two of Texas's most popular megachurch pastors, T.D. Jakes of The Potter's House and Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church, Dallas, reflected dueling positions on the state's controversial voter identification law. Jakes dismissed it as "needless" while Jeffress argued that the law is necessary ahead of Tuesday's mid-term elections.
The Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 14 (SB 14) into law in 2011 in a bid to curb voter fraud. It requires voters seeking to cast their ballots in person to present photo identification, such as a Texas driver's or gun license, a military ID or a passport according to votetexas.gov. The law is described as one of the strictest voter identification laws in the country.
Many Democrats and voting rights advocates have been lobbying against the law charging that it stands to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of particularly minority voters, but last month the Supreme Court, in an order which was unsigned and without reason, allowed the law to go into effect ahead of next week's election.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, supported by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, charged in a six-page dissent that the order "risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters."
Texas's voter identification law, wrote Ginsburg "may prevent more than 600,000 registered Texas voters (about 4.5 percent of all registered voters) from voting in person for lack of compliant identification."
"A sharply disproportionate percentage of those voters are African-American or Hispanic," she noted, adding that "racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact."
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It’s amazing to me that only seven states require photo ID to vote: Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
That is why the Marxists oppose it. Fraud is the only way they can win. Look for much more of it next week.
Neither one has a say in it so they both need to shut up and stick to their day jobs.
I am somewhat surprised at Jakes; he doesn’t usually stand with the “mainstream” black churches (National Baptist, AME, etc.), nor have I generally heard of him to take positions on non-doctrine-related political issues. Another day, another lesson.
Why? They are citizens of Texas. I especially like Jeffress, who speaks out boldly for Christian values in the these last days.
what a sari sight...
RE: Neither one has a say in it so they both need to shut up and stick to their day jobs.
I respectfully disagree. BOTH OF THEM ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO VOTE. Being Pastors does not negate their right to speak out as voters.
I’ll give her my ID anytime.
Doesn’t Christ teach honesty and accountability?
I challenge anyone who opposes voter ID laws as “unnecessary” to immediately remove all locks from the doors of their homes if they have never been burglarized and if burglary is “miniscule” in their area.
Come on, drones. Do it!!!
He endorsed Obama.
Ha! Using Mandela to support voter ID will make the Liberal’s heads explode!
Like Mom always said, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, you don’t have anything to be afraid of.
Jakes supports Dear Leader and supported the Goreacle.
I had to show my ID here in NC this week. If not Dejure, at least we have Defacto ID requirement.
No, they will just close their eyes to it, or rationalize it away. Libs/Leftists live in the land of cognitive dissonance. They are unfazed by facts and don't let them get in the way of their beliefs.
In other words, quit bitching and help folks
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