These words are not of Christ: Sunday sermons take on Trumps reported vulgarity

Pastors used their Sunday pulpits to speak out against President Trump’s reported vulgarity about less affluent nations. Citing everything from scripture and Martin Luther King Jr. to the Gettysburg Address, clergy representing a wide range of Christianity — even people who usually don’t touch political topics — in references long and brief said church was the proper place to address Trump’s words.

In more traditional services, Trump references were veiled — if biting. Progressive congregations were blunt.

“Ours referenced [biblical heroines] Ruth and Naomi as coming from ‘a hole in Moab,’” Kevin R. den Dulk, a political scientist at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., tweeted about his pastor. “There was detectable shuffling in seats after that one.”

Catholics at Our Lady Queen of Peace in Arlington, across the Potomac River from D.C., continually interrupted the 9:30 a.m. Mass with applause and then gave a standing ovation to the Rev. Timothy Hickey. The priest in his homily said people from the nations Trump referred to with profanity are our “brothers and sisters” who should be defended in any and every way, parishioners said.

That’s the “first time I have ever seen that at that church or at any Catholic Church I have ever attended. I am 55,” one woman, who spoke on condition her name not be used because she is a federal employee and fears professional repercussions of speaking against Trump, said of the congregation’s reaction. Another congregant of Our Lady recalled Hickey urging people to stand up to racism coming from “across the river.”

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