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Posted on 12/26/2025 7:57:45 AM PST by Morgana
The Bishop of the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), the Reverend Jen Nagel, has released a statement, “For the Dignity of Our Neighbors,’ defending Somali immigrants and criticizing ICE amid the backdrop of the Minnesota Frand Scandal.
The Minnesota fraud scandals, primarily the Feeding Our Future case, involve the theft of approximately $300 million (with broader losses estimated to be nearly $1 billion) from federal child nutrition and social service programs during the COVID-19 era through fake meal sites, shell companies, and fraudulent claims. Furthermore, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson recently speculated that fraud found in Minnesota-run Medicaid and social service programs since 2018 could exceed $9 billion. So far, nearly all the suspected fraudsters are Somali.
This scandal prompted Trump to direct his ire their way, saying in part:
“I don’t want them in our country. I’ll be honest with you, OK….Somebody will say, ‘Oh, that’s not politically correct.’ I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. With Somalia, which is barely a country, you know, they have no, they have no anything. They just run around killing each other. There’s no structure.”
Rather than make any mention of the fraud or scandal, the mass theft and abuse perpetrated on the state’s community Nagel instead insists that Christians should have radical hospitality for immigrants, without saying what should be done when those guests set your home on fire, and in turn attacks ICE agents doing their job to remove illegal immigrants, writing in a letter to the synod:
This week, the White House took aim at the Somali community here in Minnesota, cruelly disparaging and attacking these neighbors who have contributed so much to our state.
The attacks also included threats and now the deployment of a targeted ICE operation in Minnesota. This is just the latest in a pattern of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy from the Administration, and we’ve heard from neighbors that they are heartbroken and angry.
She continues:
Again and again, our faith and the ELCA’s social teaching call us to reject such cruel characterizations of our neighbors, to oppose unjust immigration policies and practices, and to show up alongside our neighbors who are under threat. ..We will work for policies that cause neither undue repercussions within immigrant communities nor bias against them
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No Other Gospel Galatians 1: 6-10
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
10For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Jen is a heretic.
One might say it depends on how one looks at it...
She does not deserve the title of Lutheran.
More importantly, she does not deserve the title of Christian.
“And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”
Don’t care what some carpet-munching “bishop” of some fake “church” has to say about anything.
That church should be immediately taxed to help take care of the Somalis they so love and support (not monetarily!).
You can be sure that bishop lives nowhere near them.
Crazy Minniesammie lesbo gone off the rails.
Minneapolis Lutheran lesbian. say that 3 times fast!
I wonder if this lesbo “reverend” freeloader is paying taxes. Religion. The last refuge of lesbian scoundrels.
I really have a hard time isolating the one big idea that the anti-ICE people have.
Is it really that they think laws passed by multiple Congresses and signed by multiple Presidents (mostly large Democratic majority Congresses, a mix of Republican and Democratic Presidents) should not be enforced? Because reasons?
Asking for a friend.
Link to her bio here:
https://mpls-synod.org/our-synod/bishop-nagel/
She looks like just about what you expect someone like her to look like.
“Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)”
Execrable
Lesbian
Covens in
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She isn’t smart enough to be a heretic. She is merely reflexively apostate.
One thing about demonicRATS. They never give up the con.
Madonna went to Europe and stood up for the Gypsies. Then she went home where she doesn’t have to deal with them. Drive-by stuff the lefties are good at.
Nice try, but Mr. Hitler was raised Catholic, not Lutheran.
The left has become anti white and anti civilization.
Illegal third world immigration is one tool in that toolkit.
It’s ELCA.
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