Black Spirituality Religion : Methodists Bring Church Charges Against Jeff Sessions For Border Policy

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Methodists Bring Church Charges Against Jeff Sessions For Border Policy

Carol Kuruvilla
HuffPost


...More than 600 clergy and lay members of the United Methodist Church have signed a letter bringing church charges against fellow member Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the zero tolerance immigration policy that has resulted in the separation of undocumented children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/methodists-bring-church-charges-against-165117226.html

Attorney General Jeff Sessions addresses cadets at the Lackawanna College Police Academy in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on June 15. Hundreds of his fellow United Methodist Church members are bringing church charges against him for separating immigrant families. (Pacific Press / Getty Images)

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Jeff Sessions Says He Never 'Intended' To Separate Immigrant Families. That's A Lie

Igor Bobic
HuffPost


...In an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network that is set to air Friday, Sessions agreed that thousands of children ― some just months old ― being torn from their parents’ arms as a result of his new “zero tolerance” immigration policy didn’t make for great optics for the Trump administration.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeff-sessions-says-never-apos-213831341.html

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network that “the American people don’t like the idea that we are separating families. We never really intended to do that.” (Michael Candelori/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

 

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Jeff Sessions could be expelled from the Methodist Church over migrant policies
More than 600 United Methodist Church clergy and members have brought up charges against the attorney general
By Tara Isabella Burton


...In a June 18 statement, 640 signatories invoked paragraph 2702.3 of the United Methodist Book of Discipline to charge Sessions with child abuse, immorality (including “the use of violence against children to deter immigration”), racial discrimination, and the dissemination of false doctrine counter to Methodist teaching — including Sessions’s controversial public use of the Bible verse Romans 13 to legitimize the Trump administration’s migrant policies.

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/19/17479232/united-methodist-church-charges-expel-jeff-sessions-migrant

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...tly-thinks-americans-have-very-short-memories

 

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Jeff Sessions Jokes About Family Separations Amid Controversy Over U.S. Border Policy

Nick Visser
HuffPost


...Despite widespread criticism of the policy, Sessions lambasted the “radicalized” left and joked that those attacking the policy were hypocrites who would gladly separate families that infiltrated their “gated communities.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeff-sessions-jokes-family-separations-045149235.html