'Don't You Have Any Empathy?': Sarah Huckabee Sanders Confronted Over Families Separated at Border
Source: The Daily Beast
The White House press secretary on Thursday was forced to defend as sound policy the separation of babies from their mothers at the U.S.-Mexico border.
MATT WILSTEIN
06.14.18 4:09 PM ET
It started with a question from CNNs Jim Acosta. Where does it say in the Bible that it's moral to take children away from their mothers? he asked White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during Thursdays briefing.
Acosta was referring to a justification put forward by Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier in the day during a meeting with religious leaders in Indiana for the administrations policy of separating children from their parents at the border.
"Illegal entry into the United States is a crimeas it should be. Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution, Sessions said. I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order.
While Sanders said she was not aware of Sessions comments, she answered: I can say that it is very Biblical to enforce the law. That is actually repeated a number of times throughout the Bible.
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)as a justification for kidnapping children and making it "lawful".
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...along with all the fornication, murder, incest, and fairly tales.
cloudbase
(5,520 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)My religion says this decision is from the "damned to hell" part of the bible.
Now we're adopting a govt of the bible of Sessions & Pence?
And no other idealogy or religion matters anymore?
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Wwcd
(6,288 posts)I'm sure he's using his godly powers to convince the Latino community that the children's closely guarded encampments are for teaching the word of Pence's dominist god to all the new children.
Just so they'll all be on board with the new world order if they're ever released someday.
Brainwashing the good little soldiers in the name of dominism, i think it's called.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)look up Dominionism also known as Christian Reconstructionism.
Right Wing Watch used to be my go-to source, and they link to a lot of what we in scholarship call primary sources, that is, what the crazies say about themselves. However, I notice there are a lot more links today -- you can even go to Wikipedia to start with.
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)Figures, huh.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)the Klan in charge of the Justice Dept.
brooklynite
(94,598 posts)In Germany perhaps?
Hekate
(90,714 posts)... where the little children played outside in the sun (behind barbed wire), and drew pictures and wrote poems (look up the book "I Never Saw Another Butterfly". ). Until the end.
I am just so sickened.
Not in my name, goddamit.
SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Germany in the 1930s and 40s was smiled upon by the heavenly father, as they murdered millions of children.
sakabatou
(42,158 posts)Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)Use and abuse their Bible in any way necessary to support whatever bullshit cause they feel like, no matter how egregious and disgusting. The Southern Baptist convention was founded on that type of logic!
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)if they continue to twist it to suit their own needs. I donate to FFR ....Freedom From Religion in politics...like Ron Reagan Jr says, "I am not afraid of burning in Hell".
https://ffrf.org/about
Docreed2003
(16,863 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Who is harmed ? It is victimless.
angrychair
(8,702 posts)Why is the media sitting idle as the damn DOJ uses the Bible to justify ANYTHING!!!!
When did we become the Holy Trumpian Empire?!?
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)backtoblue
(11,343 posts)This is all so damned ridiculous and unconstitutional. I'm so pissed off today. This is not my president and not my ignorant stooges.
kentuck
(111,103 posts)Fuck...!
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JI7
(89,252 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)pointed out to Sanders that Biblical law is not the law of the land in the US.
3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)I gasped out loud when she sneered at Jim Acosta.
enid602
(8,620 posts)Yuck. The mark of the Huckabeast.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)And fun fact, any kook can find justification for pretty much any kooky idea they have in the Bible.
lastlib
(23,248 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Remind me again please who has the majority in Congress. Who are stacking the courts in their favour? Who holds the executive office?