Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jesus Would Be Maligned As ‘Radical’ By Today’s Congress

Huffington Post ^ | 2%27/20 | Carol Kurivilla

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The New York lawmaker invoked her Christian faith in a passionate defense of the dignity and rights of LGBTQ Americans. POLITICS Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jesus Would Be Maligned As ‘Radical’ By Today’s Congress The New York lawmaker invoked her Christian faith in a passionate defense of the dignity and rights of LGBTQ Americans. By Carol Kuruvilla 02/27/2020 06:45 PM ET 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.” Last year, an NBC News and Columbia Journalism Investigation found that Trump’s Justice Department filed more amicus briefs in religious liberties cases in its first two years than the Obama and George W. Bush administrations during their first two years. Raskin pointed to an amicus brief the Justice Department filed in support of Masterpiece Cakeshop, the Colorado bakery that argued it had a right, for religious reasons, to refuse to make customized wedding cakes for gay customers.

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The same left who for the longest time smugly told us G-D is dead and Jesus is just an imaginary friend. Unless they're needed to fit their agendas then G-D is real and Jesus is a cool dude. I'm surprised they haven't yet said Jesus performed abortions.