Jones is not a priest. He is a pastor, Methodist Church.
And yes, the Methodist Church embraced left issues. But embracing the struggle for civil rights was not a leftist issue. Sure left wingers infiltrated and used the civil rights movement for their own purposes. But all who were involved in the civil rights movement were not leftist radicals.
But the Methodist Church has always been about deeds, good deeds and social activism.
Google definition of priest. “a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites.”
Secondly, if you do not know about the work of the far-Left in the Civil Rights movement, then suggest you review history of the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Ignore the current PC reviews, rather look at early reports, FBI field interviews, etc. There are many other examples of that infiltration.
I agree that the Civil Rights movement was just and long overdue. To tell Blacks that they couldn’t go to certain public schools or tax-supported hospitals was immoral, unjust and illegal. There are clubs here in Orlando that ten years ago would not have welcomed Colin Powell or J.C. Watts singularly because they were Black. That was and is shameful.
That said, the Civil Rights movement was, in places and at times, infiltrated by the far-left, the same far-left that wanted (and wants) to destroy America.