‘Religious Left’ on the rise in response to
President Trump’s people and policies, by
Ann Corcoran 3/28/17
Are they organizing in your name? This
is a Reuters story highlighting the phrase ‘Religious Left’ something we
have been talking about on these pages for years. Entitled of course to
their political views, what has grated on me for so long is the FACT that many of the
organizations working on the ‘Religious Left’ receive large pots of federal
grant money that is not sufficiently accounted for.
The ‘Religious Right’ has not tapped
in to the US Treasury as the Left has done! Also, I believe churchgoers (Catholics and
Protestants) should know what is being done in their names. Here are
some snips from the story featured at Drudge yesterday:
(Reuters) – Since President Donald
Trump’s election, monthly lectures on social justice at the 600-seat Gothic
chapel of New York’s Union Theological Seminary have been filled to capacity
with crowds three times what they usually draw.
In January, the 181-year-old Upper
Manhattan graduate school, whose architecture evokes London’s Westminster
Abbey, turned away about 1,000 people from a lecture on mass incarceration. In
the nine years that Reverend Serene Jones has served as its president, she has
never seen such crowds.
“The election of Trump
has been a clarion call to progressives in the Protestant and Catholic churches
in America to move out of a place of primarily professing progressive policies
to really taking action,” she said.
Although not as powerful as the
religious right, which has been credited with helping elect Republican
presidents and boasts well-known leaders such as Christian Broadcasting Network
founder Pat Robertson, the “religious left” is now slowly coming together as a force in
U.S. politics.
This disparate group, traditionally
seen as lacking clout, has been propelled into political activism by Trump’s
policies on immigration, healthcare and social welfare, according to clergy members,
activists and academics. A key test will be how well it will be able to
translate its mobilization into votes in the 2018 midterm congressional
elections. [They better
darn well not use taxpayer dollars for their vote mobilization!—ed]
Some in the religious left are inspired by Pope Francis, the Roman
Catholic leader who has been an outspoken
critic of anti-immigrant policies and a champion of helping the needy.
[These reports NEVER mention that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops
and Catholic Charities receive millions of tax payer dollars every year!—ed]
Although support for the religious
left is difficult to measure, leaders point to several examples, such as a
surge of congregations offering to provide sanctuary to immigrants seeking asylum…
The number of churches volunteering to offer sanctuary to asylum
seekers doubled to 800 in 45 of the 50 U.S. states after the election, said the
Elkhart, Indiana-based Church World Service, a coalition of Christian
denominations which helps refugees settle in the United States – and the number of new churches offering help has
grown so quickly that the group has lost count.
You need to know that “asylum
seekers” are illegal aliens until their cases are settled by an immigration
judge. The Left uses the phrase to put a veneer of respectability on illegal
aliens who may or may not have a shot at being granted asylum and thus being
deemed a legitimate refugee.
Church World Service!
As we said here earlier in the month, CWS, got nearly a HALF A BILLION
tax dollars during the Obama years. Why doesn’t Reuters ever mention this!
There should be a
law! Any non-profit sucking this kind of money out of the US Treasury should be
prohibited from running anti-Trump (or anti-any President) campaigns!
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