Posted on 02/28/2020 5:13:24 AM PST by sevinufnine
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) used her Christian faith to ardently defend the rights of LGBTQ Americans during a congressional committee hearing on Thursday ― calling out the “bigotry” of those who use Christianity to discriminate against this marginalized community.
The lawmaker suggested that Jesus himself would be “maligned as a radical” by today’s Congress for his message of love and inclusion.
She said it strikes her that “if Christ himself walked through these doors and said what he said thousands of years ago ― that we should love our neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, fight for the least of us, that it is easier ... for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into a kingdom of heaven ― he would be maligned as a radical and rejected from these doors.”
Ocasio-Cortez was speaking at a Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on the ways the Trump administration has tried to undermine LGBTQ rights.
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True, but most Congresses would outright crucify him, so tis a little better.
Today’s Congress does not speak with a single voice about anything. So to say that Congress as a whole would consider Jesus a radical is an oversimplistic mischaracterization typical of this empty-headed loon. Half of Congress thinks that you, Aoc, are a visionary. Half of Congress thinks you are an idiot. I’m not a member of Congress, I just think that the reason people call you “AOC” is that it is more trouble to enunciate your name then you are worth.
Well, by the left side of the Congress, anyway, He was certainly “maligned” by the Congress of His day and place.
which are also the words of Christ Himself.
How convenient. Almost as good as your average Blab It and Grab It television evangelist.
Christ told Mary Magdalena to “Go and sin no more,”.
That’s what I believe he would tell the LGBTQ community now
Jesus would be assailed as an evangelical believer of the man in the clouds by today’s Leftists.
Go and sin no more.
And nobody pointed out in that committee that all those "thoses" were and are Democrats.
As 99% of liberals, she speaks out of both sides of her mouth.
“Jeremiah 6:7 - As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.”
And in James 3:
“Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. 11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers and sisters, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. 14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. 17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.”
Leftist always identify as Christians when they bastardize scripture to make it fit whatever they want.
“Same as you’re doing to Trump, AoC?”
I was so hoping someone would post that! :)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jesus Would Be Maligned As Radical By Today’s Congress>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
She is right, but those doing so would be Democrats who support abortion and refuse to protect babies already born outside the bodys of their attempted abortion Mothers.
The Socialist Bolsheviks of Congress would not only malign Jesus, they would crucify him immediately, just like they attempt to do the same to our President.
AOC had better hedge her bets. She needs to get with an agenda of her own salvation, or she herself will soon inhabit the precincts of the very hell she is trying to bring here to America..
He was indeed sir. He did, however, really rock their world, when he rose from the dead. 😁
Actually, they’d probably be calling Him a bigot :(
That too. The Democrat crown of thorns would be endless.
Jesus also said to the woman accused of adultery ‘go and sin no more’. Same sex relations is anti-biblical and harmful to the soul. God is Love so true but one also of Truth and Righteousness. He loves LGBTQ’s but not their sins. Jesus died for the sins of the world and not for the promotion of it. As usual AOC is unwise in her prating ramblings of ignorance.
Spot on
They are such low life that they will show the religious hypocrisy solely for political purposes and to align their own pockets
In point of fact, he was a radical. Just sayin’...
The Lord works in mysterious ways. He even got demonicRATS to quote Jesus in Congress. We need more of that.
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