*Social justice leader Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II called out the hypocrisy of President Trump, who ordered the removal of peaceful protesters so he could stand in front of a church holding a Bible, saying his policies violate the theology of both God and the Bible.
Trump’s policies and actions are both “religious hypocrisy and political insanity,” Rev. Barber said Monday night.
“Trump claims he’s using the Insurrection Act,” Rev. Barber tweeted Monday. “He (just) ordered the military to move protesters exercising their constitutional rights so he can go to church. But his policies violate the theology of the church to care for the sick, the poor, immigrants. Utter hypocrisy and insanity.”
Rev. Barber, president of Repairers of the Breach and co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, later referenced Matthew 23:23, in which Jesus says hypocrites “have neglected the more important matters of the law — justice, mercy and faithfulness.”
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
Shortly before President Trump threatened to use the Insurrection Act to send federal troops to states unable to stop protests prompted originally by the death of George Floyd a week ago in Minneapolis, peaceful protesters were tear-gassed so they would clear the area.
Trump then posed, holding a Bible, in front of St. John’s Church.
Source: Trump’s Photo-op with Bible in Front of Church is ‘Utter Hypocrisy and Insanity’
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