Hundreds Of Clergy Issue Stinging Rebuke of DHS Sec. Kristi Noem’s ‘Immoral’ Mass Deportation Agenda
“As Christians, we cannot look away,” write the clergy members, who according to Religion News Service come from the Presbyterian, Catholic, Black Protestant, United Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, Mennonite, Episcopalian, Anglican, Unitarian Universalist, Disciples of Christ and Baptist traditions. “We must act to stop this evil and witness to the goodness and dignity of all God’s children,” the letter states. “For us, the stakes couldn’t be higher. As Matt 25:46 clarifies, those who refuse hospitality to the stranger, refuse to see Jesus in the faces of the persecuted, stand condemned.”
The open letter, “Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview,” references the Trump administration’s violent attacks on several faith leaders, some of whom have sought to bear witness outside a Chicago-area ICE facility only to be shot with pepper balls by federal immigration agents. Peaceful actions like prayer “have meant little to ICE agents,” clergy write.
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