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 todays 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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LOL! That’s what my father always called them. Sodomites. He was not willing to sugar-coat a term what they are.
...and...Mark 5:9
For Jesus had already declared, Come out of this man, you unclean spirit! 9What is your name? Jesus asked. My name is Legion, he replied, for we are many. 10And he begged Jesus repeatedly not to send them out of that region.
Amen.
She’s right because the left would pitch a fit about Him, just like they are doing to President Trump.
She’s half right in that He would be maligned by many in Congress. Not for the reasons she thinks.
I also suspect He would not expend much time addressing Congress, and would prefer to deal with people directly. Like He does right now.
“I also suspect He would not expend much time addressing Congress, and would prefer to deal with people directly. Like He does right now.”
Exactly.
Her god is in her mirror.
Also, that’s another reason why Congress and the media hate Trump so much. He likes to twitter directly to the people and they cannot control the content of what we read. Gotta love it though.
“Asking for a FRiend. (s) nully, an agnostic, who’s been known to do that...”
Anyone I’ve known claiming to be atheist will with a few asked questions admit to being agnostic and in search of proof of the Divine.
“I have of course no absolute proof that a divine Being does not exist, but I need more proof that such does exist.”
Atheists and agnostics are totally different species.
And she thinks this is news? He was considered a radical when he walked the earth.
Liberals cynically invoke the Name of Jesus for their own political ends.
“Jesus, the bearded revolutionary who challenged the status quo, must have been a liberal!” they chant.
Sick of these people.
Good for your Dad! He and I would probably get along great. I refuse to let them hijack the word “Gay.” At least, Lesbians are honest about who they are.
Jesus was found guilty and executed because he stood steadfast on the platform to “Make God Great Again.” The Deep Church opposed Him at every turn.
Good commentary, sevinufnine. Talk about purges, one is overdue for Pope Frankie and his Jesuit radical friends.
On a FB page, someone said that because Jesus never condemned homosexuality it was OK.
I wrote that Jesus also never accepted it to be OK, and Jesus told the people to obey the Law of Moses and the Prophets, in which such perversions are mentioned and forbidden.
How can democrats in her district vote for her with this attitude?
Scripture favors:
wealth rather than poverty & capitalism creates wealth
private property
economic competition
true justice
inequality
price system
free market = freedom
free enterprise = freedom
money
Scripture rejects:
force
violation of natural rights
social justice
egalitarianism
government interventionism
Jesus taught “Make God Great Again.” The Deep Church opposed Him at every turn.
What is it with all these Godless politicians who claim to be Catholic? Did she have her little ashes on her forehead Wednesday like Pelosi’s?
Because she is not Republican.
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