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(34,195 posts)
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 02:29 PM Oct 2018

Pastor removed after interrupting Sessions speech with Bible verse

Source: The Hill

A pastor on Monday was escorted out of a room after interrupting Attorney General Jeff Sessions's speech with a Bible verse, while calling on the Trump administration official to repent.

"I was hungry and you did not feed me. I was a stranger and you did not welcome me. I was naked and you did not clothe me. I was a stranger and you did not welcome me," the pastor said, quoting a Bible verse while Sessions was giving a speech in Boston on religious liberty. “... I call upon you to repent, to care for those in need, to remember that when you do not care for others, you are wounding the body of Christ," the pastor added.

"Thank you for those remarks and attack but I would just tell you we do our best everyday to fulfill my responsibility to enforce the laws of the United States," Sessions said.

Another person was also removed from the room after standing up and defending the pastor, saying that he was "exercising his free exercise of religion.” As that protester was also being escorted out of the room, he called it "hypocritical" given that Sessions was there for a speech on religious liberty.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/413675-pastor-removed-after-interrupting-sessions-speech-with-bible

Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/413675-pastor-removed-after-interrupting-sessions-speech-with-bible

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Pastor removed after interrupting Sessions speech with Bible verse (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2018 OP
K&R ck4829 Oct 2018 #1
"Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!" mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 #2
Greatest scene in history of movies grantcart Oct 2018 #18
Sessions speaking on religious liberty is like Ronald McDonald speaking at a Weight Watchers event. Initech Oct 2018 #3
More like its like Donald Trump lecturing real Nobel Peace prize winners on what it takes cstanleytech Oct 2018 #41
"remarks and attack" PSPS Oct 2018 #4
Looks like Sessions was using the Nuremberg defense. louis c Oct 2018 #5
... handmade34 Oct 2018 #20
"... and attack ...."? area51 Oct 2018 #6
Only the parts that are uncomfortable to them The Genealogist Oct 2018 #9
Yeah, like all the parts with Jesus in it. Dave Starsky Oct 2018 #13
The GOP's jesus is a murderous white sex machine and Corvo Bianco Oct 2018 #16
Doing your best? Racerdog1 Oct 2018 #7
The time for being civil is long gone. watoos Oct 2018 #8
Duh. Religious liberty refers to refusing service to homosexuals.. knightmaar Oct 2018 #10
Andrew Gillum Was Right: A Hit Dog Really WILL Holler...LOL The_Counsel Oct 2018 #11
"enforcing the laws" that he and his cronies are establishing. JudyM Oct 2018 #12
He daily uses the bible to justify his barbarism... blugbox Oct 2018 #14
When will the rubes realize that Republicans hate Jesus and despise his teachings? Power 2 the People Oct 2018 #15
The thing is the Repugnants that run for office have learned to use the dog whistles of cstanleytech Oct 2018 #42
Repent! Hekate Oct 2018 #17
Sessions is just a homonculus geardaddy Oct 2018 #19
I would go with demon elf....or maybe evil pixie. LudwigPastorius Oct 2018 #21
Yeah, that's probably more accurate. geardaddy Oct 2018 #26
"Lock the pastor up!" "Punch him out!" "Carry him out on a stretcher!" Honeycombe8 Oct 2018 #22
Republican Jesus says it's good to put children and babies in cages. keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #23
I read the Scriptures in my church service once a month . . . Roadside Attraction Oct 2018 #24
Repubs don't do Turbineguy Oct 2018 #27
When I was a child in Sunday School we sang "Jesus Loves The Little Children" njhoneybadger Oct 2018 #30
True story time OriginalGeek Oct 2018 #34
They didn't change the words up north but that same seed got planted here also njhoneybadger Oct 2018 #35
For the Bible tells me so keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #25
Sessions the Bigot: He is as much a danger as Trump rkleinberger Oct 2018 #28
He read the wrong thing! MyOwnPeace Oct 2018 #29
Funny, I thought Keebler works for US rickyhall Oct 2018 #31
Ironic that Sessions turns to a non-religious defense of the law Renew Deal Oct 2018 #32
Under God aeromanKC Oct 2018 #33
Stop it Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2018 #36
Oh, I have no doubt he reads it. GulfCoast66 Oct 2018 #39
Good for the pastor. TomSlick Oct 2018 #37
Sessions "How dare you interrupt my bastardization of Bible verses with their true meaning!" n/t CousinIT Oct 2018 #38
"thank you for those remarks and attack" ooky Oct 2018 #40
In practice, "Christian" does not mean "follower of Christ" the way you'd think it does FiveGoodMen Oct 2018 #43

cstanleytech

(26,319 posts)
41. More like its like Donald Trump lecturing real Nobel Peace prize winners on what it takes
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 12:58 AM
Oct 2018

to achieve peace.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
13. Yeah, like all the parts with Jesus in it.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:15 PM
Oct 2018

The really get pissed off when you quote directly from that long-haired hippie freak.

Corvo Bianco

(1,148 posts)
16. The GOP's jesus is a murderous white sex machine and
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:36 PM
Oct 2018

References to the lil bitch jesus are not appreciated

 

Racerdog1

(808 posts)
7. Doing your best?
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 02:41 PM
Oct 2018

Serving the orange anus, ripping kids from their parents and lying about everything, including your involvement with the Russians. If this is your best you little rat looking fuck, you aren't worth a shit.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
8. The time for being civil is long gone.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 02:44 PM
Oct 2018

That preacher and his defender get it. That preacher was being pretty rude after all, interrupting our AG's speech.

Time for a Trump Tweet bashing this preacher?

knightmaar

(748 posts)
10. Duh. Religious liberty refers to refusing service to homosexuals..
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:07 PM
Oct 2018

.. and promiscuous women, anyone bearing the mark of Cain, transgender people, etc.

Stuff like that.

Not, you know, being nice to poor people. You keep that shit to yourself.

The_Counsel

(1,660 posts)
11. Andrew Gillum Was Right: A Hit Dog Really WILL Holler...LOL
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:11 PM
Oct 2018

How on earth can Sessions view what the pastor said as an "attack" unless he already knew he was wrong in his actions (and inaction)?

blugbox

(951 posts)
14. He daily uses the bible to justify his barbarism...
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:28 PM
Oct 2018

Yet when someone calls him out and reminds him that the bible (generally) is for helping humanity... that's an "attack" on him?

He was attacked by a bible verse being quoted.

Power 2 the People

(2,437 posts)
15. When will the rubes realize that Republicans hate Jesus and despise his teachings?
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 03:31 PM
Oct 2018

How can you witness their blatant cruelty and greed and still think they are fighting for Christianity? When will the real preachers and pastors stand up like this man did? Hopefully before it's too late.

cstanleytech

(26,319 posts)
42. The thing is the Repugnants that run for office have learned to use the dog whistles of
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 01:01 AM
Oct 2018

things like being pro life (which they honestly have never been) and the Repugnant voting base keeps lapping it up like a fly on vomit.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
22. "Lock the pastor up!" "Punch him out!" "Carry him out on a stretcher!"
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:15 PM
Oct 2018

"Wish we didn't have to be nice...so nice...nice."

Then Sanders says, "Trump has brought the country together."

And then the papa bear said to the mama bear....

keithbvadu2

(36,917 posts)
23. Republican Jesus says it's good to put children and babies in cages.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:17 PM
Oct 2018

Republican Jesus says it's good to put children and babies in cages.


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24. I read the Scriptures in my church service once a month . . .
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:17 PM
Oct 2018

We rotate reading the Scriptures in our church service; yesterday was my time.

I read those very verses:

Matthew 25:35-40 New International Version (NIV)

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’

40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

njhoneybadger

(3,910 posts)
30. When I was a child in Sunday School we sang "Jesus Loves The Little Children"
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:32 PM
Oct 2018

Whatever Happened


Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red, brown, yellow
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
34. True story time
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:54 PM
Oct 2018

I was raised in a fundie baptist church in Texas. They thought it was FUNNY to change that one line to "white and white and white and white".

It never occurred to them they were implanting the seeds of atheism in at least one of their kids.

rkleinberger

(155 posts)
28. Sessions the Bigot: He is as much a danger as Trump
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:30 PM
Oct 2018

Sessions only respects the "right kind of Christian - White male heterosexual."

MyOwnPeace

(16,938 posts)
29. He read the wrong thing!
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 04:31 PM
Oct 2018

That was from Matthew.
He should have read from Donny’s favorite, you know, the Two Corinthians!

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
39. Oh, I have no doubt he reads it.
Mon Oct 29, 2018, 10:54 PM
Oct 2018

But like most people he picks and chooses the parts he really believes in.

I was raised in a fundamentalist church. They sincerely believe what they believe and truly believe god is on their side.

I chose to believe in Reason.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
43. In practice, "Christian" does not mean "follower of Christ" the way you'd think it does
Tue Oct 30, 2018, 01:08 PM
Oct 2018

(or there'd be very few Christians on earth)

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