Posted on 01/29/2021 6:18:55 PM PST by marshmallow
SAO PAULO — Stating that Brazil’s federal government displayed contempt for protecting the health of the population and showed criminal conduct, 380 Brazilian Christian religious leaders filed an impeachment request against President Jair Bolsonaro for the crime of shirking his responsibilities.
“Faced with the most serious public health crisis in the history of the country and the planet, the president of the republic, irresponsibly, oscillated between denialism, contempt and assumed sabotage of the prevention and health care policies of Brazilian citizens,” read part of the document presented to Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies Jan. 26.
According to the document, since the beginning of the pandemic, Bolsonaro has sought to discredit renowned national scientific institutions, held back resources meant to fight the virus, and encouraged the population to use medication, such as chloroquine, which has no proven efficacy to cope with the disease.
The president, say religious leaders, has also mocked basic health recommendations to fight COVID-19.
“There is a contempt for the use of masks and social distancing and, until recently, a disregard for vaccines,” Bishop Jose Santos Mendes of Brejo, president of the Brazilian bishops’ social action commission, told Catholic News Service.
Mendes was one of four bishops who signed the petition.
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The church has been overthrown
That group is worldwide.
And had Trump won - we’d be seeing them call for it here too.
Called for POTUS Trump's removal on the 8th of January in a letter to VP Pence.
Crap like this is why I walked away from the corrupt catholic church in 1988.
We’ve already impeached one president twice, why do we gotta impeach a bazillion of them?!? This is getting ridiculous.
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