Dr. Colleen Kraft, the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics visited a child detention center and was stunned by the cruelty of what she saw.
Jeff Sessions justified this cruel policy by citing the Bible. No law requires family separation.
It is amazing that he thinks he is a good Christian. Do you think he has asked himself, “What would Jesus do?” I can’t speak for Jesus but from what I know of his love for humanity, I don’t think he would approve of the policy of family separation.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Anything in the bible that is used to hurt, maim or destroy in any way was man written. This is one example. God would never condone usage of the bible to allow one human to be put under the control of another nor would it ever be used as a way to separate children from their parents. This is a violation of humanity’s rights to survive and thrive in beauty and love. That is god’s message.
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In defense of separating immigrant families, Sessions cites same Bible passage used to defend slavery
06/14/2018023
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks about immigration to law enforcement officers in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Thursday. (Mike Moore/Journal-Gazette/AP)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a Bible verse Thursday to defend his department’s policy of prosecuting everyone who crosses the border from Mexico, suggesting that God supports the government in separating immigrant parents from their children.
“I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13, to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes,” Sessions said during a speech to law enforcement officers in Fort Wayne, Ind. “Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves. Consistent and fair application of the law is in itself a good and moral thing, and that protects the weak and protects the lawful.”
Sessions announced in May a zero-tolerance policy in which the Justice Department would begin prosecuting everyone who crosses the Southwest border. Part of the policy shift meant that migrants traveling with children or unaccompanied minors end up detained instead of released; U.S. immigration law charges adults with a crime, but not the children, which means they’re held separately…
We are not a theocracy.
Citing the Bible as a justification is a slippery slope.
The xtian theocrats believe that it is the ONLY justification. . .
. . . for whatever inhumane machinations they come up with.
You are the first person I’ve known to use xtian in a sentence.
What Dienne said!
I won’t speak for Duane, but I use it all the time. For me, it’s to distinguish actual Christians who simply do their best to live their lives in accordance with their faith vs. those who take Christ out of Christianity through hatred, cruelty, judgment and intolerance. I have a lot of respect for the former and don’t wish to offend. I have nothing but loathing for the latter (many who, unfortunately, think they are the former).
Citing the Bible is just plain wrong. It’s like citing Greek mythology. If this is a secular government, then government representatives who cite any religious text as justification should be fired immediately.
And citing biblical references out of context is no more justified than citing a secular reference out of context.
Sessions is a Bible beating hypocrite. Children are being separated from their parents, in most cases, their mothers to serve a political agenda. This harsh, ill advised move is supposed to send a message to desperate people fleeing gang violence in Central America. No consideration has been given to what this means to a child whose mother has been in many cases the sole protector of the child. I have taught many students from Central America. They are extremely attached to their mothers. In my opinion this treatment is cruel and unusual punishment.
Sessions is indeed a HYPOCRITE. He is JUST a BULLY, and has NO SOUL or any morality whatsoever. He is reprehensible.
retired teacher . May be you remenber me , I what you to read this , it’s not only in Soufht America. This is the most complicated thing in the world , it’s an evil thing agsinds peafull people. Thanks
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The news says the policy was on the books during the time Obama was president, but not enforced. I have not checked on that, but this administration has aborted the “asylum-seeking” opportunity–eliminating gang violence, rape and child abuse as grounds for seeking asylum. Instead, Trump, Sessions, and Republicans have elevated child abuse to an official policy and seem to be OK with Sessions claiming that the Bible justifies that. I am sick of Biblicist justifications for bad policies .
The linked article admits that it happened under Obama too, it just wasn’t nearly as common.
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Her church is now getting vouchers to indoctrinate children in their hateful beliefs.
Dianne thanks for your courage and love for children’s .
Dianne who knows if knows this gentleman is outrageous but it’s true.
Dianne77. Should read this,,
(CNN) – A Louisiana evangelist preacher says Jesus asked him to buy a new private jet. And, believe it or not, apparently Jesus has good taste in airplanes.
Jesse Duplantis, televangelist, leader of Jesse Duplantis Ministries and owner of three other private jets, is asking his followers to give him money so his ministry can buy a new Dassault Falcon 7X, which costs around 54 million dollars.
In a video recently published on his website, Duplantis says that the planes bring him closer to the Lord, literally and figuratively, and had a divine conversation in which Jesus asked for the new plane in his name.
I hope people realize GETING VOUCHERS TO HURT PEOPLE IS EVIL AND INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN’S IS EVIL . NO WINDER CHARTERS LEADERS ARE RED AND AMERICA IS READ-BLUE-WHITE
I’m sorry Dianne my comments are to long but it’s emotional and sad when I read about Children’s abuse is hard Dianne to hold the emotions .
I’m Sorry Dianne for my long comments and Thanks for your Support to ours Children’s.
I mean world’s Children. 🌏
Opinion | Laura Bush: Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’ – The
Washington Post
https://apple.news/AnrTYUId6TYOiGY6Qgb9ugQ
Kids being taken from their parents are caused by Democrats, says incompetent, ignorant Trump. He governs by idiotic Tweets. I think that he forgets that his administration is enforcing this law and that the Republicans in Congress are in the majority.
White House chief of staff, John Kelly, defended the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy toward immigrants who cross the border illegally, telling NPR that separating parents from their children could be a “tough deterrent.”
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Trump’s Tweet: “Democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the Border by working with Republicans on new legislation, for a change! This is why we need more Republicans elected in November. Democrats are good at only three things, High Taxes, High Crime and Obstruction. Sad!”
8:03 AM – Jun 16, 2018
Diane . The IG and Trump are under pressure!
HHS releases videos of immigration detention facilities as Dems press for change – Fox News
https://apple.news/Aiaz0ocQCTk-3AN1KNeqJxA
reibelcastillo – I’m confused why you’re addressing that article to me? I’ve said nothing about either Christianity or vouchers.
Diane is right about INDOCTRINATING our young re: their HATEFUL beliefs. SICK.
[ Jesus Loves Little Childrens ]
[ According to Matthew 7:12 .12 “All things, therefore, that you want men to do to you, you also must do to them.m This, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean. [ Jesus said that ]
http://www.newsweek.com/jehovahs-witnesses-939860
Jesus teaches the apostles that they have much to learn not only about little children, but also from the children.
Apparently, the “esteemed” Attorney General missed this Bible verse:
Matthew 18:6
“But those whoso shall offend one of these little ones…it were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea.”
Threatened: I’ve read that the bible can be used to support anything. My cleaning lady says that gays are an abomination in the eyes of god. Churches promote this hatred.
She wouldn’t be my cleaning lady any more.
Of course the Bible can be used to justify about anything. BUT, Sessions can only quote a single Bible verse to justify what he is doing, and I could quote numerous Bible passages that talk about saving and helping children.
I disagree that all churches promote hatred, by the way, but I don’t want to get into it here.
Threatened: Not ALL churches promote hatred. Some do and those are the ones I am talking about. Slavery in the South was promoted by churches who deemed blacks to be inferior.
I do say that the bible can be used to promote anything. The Evangelicals say that Trump is close to god because god has bestowed great wealth upon him. I’m sure they can find some quotes to back this assertion up.
Actually, the Bible makes it very clear that those who have riches on earth have already received their reward. It’s harder for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven than it is for a camel to get through the eye of the needle. The love of money is the root of all evil. The only time Jesus gets mad in the Bible is at the money-changers in the temple. The examples are endless. You cannot worship money and God. At least, not if you want to call yourself a Christian.
dienne77: What about these two quotes? How would Sessions and Pence respond?
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Rich people who see a brother or sister in need, yet close their hearts against them, cannot claim that they love God. (1 John 3:17)
Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don’t have enough to eat. What good is there in your saying to them, “God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!” – if you don’t give them the necessities of life? (James 2:15-16)
Oh, good, the tables will be turned in the afterlife, and Gates, Zuckerberg and Jobs will wash the feet of the poor
That is a lot of feet for the “few” super wealthy people to wash. It will take them millennia before they finish and by then the first feet they washed will need cleaning again. The billionaires will spend eternity scrubbing dirt off the feet of the poor. — Fitting!
That’s a plan. The Sessions Millstone Plan.
Thank you Diane. I was just thinking, millstones for ALL of the Toadies (Trump supporters). I wonder how many of these Bible thumpers realize you can support just about anything with quotes from the Bible – like we should be stoning all adulterers to death (Revelations). THAT would clean out the Swamp pretty fast, wouldn’t it?
If you take the Bible seriously, who will throw the first stone?
But maybe that’s a different deal than just tying a millstone around the neck of those who hurt children and throwing them into the sea.
EXACTLY! As a person of faith, I truly believe that Sessions, and Trump, and all of these others, will be judged by God and condemned for what they are doing.
Secularly, I also believe that history will not judge those who are promoting these horrible policies, and those who refuse to speak out against these policies, well. What side should we all be on when history judges us? A lot of people say that they would have saved Jews during the Holocaust, or Japanese Americans in World War II, or marched in the Civil Rights Movement, had they been alive.
NOW is the time to show that we are actually moral and courageous enough to do whatever we can to stop this assaults against our Constitution and human rights. How will history judge us all?
The Bible mentions parents eating their children too. I wonder if Sessions will set the example and boil and eat his three children as proof that he practices what he preaches.
Deuteronomy 28:53
During the siege and hardship your enemy will impose on you, you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters the LORD your God has given you.
2 Kings 6:29
So we boiled my son and ate him, and the next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son, and we will eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”
Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Ezekiel 5:10
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
Lloyd: This is why I say that a lot of what is in the bible was written by man. Neither Jesus nor god would approve of such blatant disregard for decency.
Mankind has a long way to go before it recognizes that we are all the same and we all deserve to be respected. Eating children doesn’t fit into that category at all. Neither does slavery nor worshiping Trump.
No wonder this administration is under pressure because they won cheating and supported by Putin .
This letter is hard Braiking 💔
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Out of curiosity, I searched for this topic and the Bible has a lot to say about children.
One example:
The Little Children and Jesus
People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them. When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.
— Mark 10:13-16
https://www.compassion.com/poverty/what-the-bible-says-about-children.htm
Haters like Jeff Sessions have a history of twisting the Bible to support their hate.
For instance:
“Through the 1960s, Klan leaders regularly depicted the cross as embodying the KKK’s Christian roots — a means to spread the light of Jesus into the countryside.” …
“The KKK’s emphasis on violence and intimidation as a means to defend its white supremacist ends has been the primary constant across its various “waves.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/klansville-faq/
But what about the real Jesus — how did He think and preach and live.?
“Jesus who rejects violence of every kind, who taught people to return love for hate, nonviolence for violence, and who did that in his own life.” …
“He was teaching not just in his words, but by the way he acted, on the cross being tortured, being executed, being shamed, humiliated — the most ignominious death possible, and he prays for those putting him to death. Just before that, in the garden when Peter had tried to defend him when he was under attack with armed soldiers, Peter takes out his sword and Jesus says, “Put it away.” He rejects violence.”
https://www.ncronline.org/news/spirituality/peace-pulpit/follow-jesus-who-rejects-violence-returns-love-hate
The family separations at the border is the final straw for me. I am tired of representatives discussing and not taking action. I am tired of people who are in positions of power and influence using methods that one would use with sane and compassionate people. Anyone who works for Trump is NOT sane or compassionate. Why don’t our reps get themselves to the detention centers and actually stop this child abuse? Why does ICE have so much unchecked power, not to mention Trump? I am deeply ashamed of this country. Anyone who voted for Trump is complicit in this abuse and anyone who supports this kind of cruelty towards children does not have a heart much less any kind of soul. I can only hope that karma exists and has something in store for Sessions and all of the people who have taken part in these separations.
Laura; “Anyone who voted for Trump is complicit in this abuse and anyone who supports this kind of cruelty towards children does not have a heart much less any kind of soul.”
It is a pity that children are being used as pawns in a political contest to keep immigrants out of the country. This is totally against all humanity and what is should stand for. Anyone who supports this should be chained and put in a 40 foot cell, which is the average size cell of children in the former Walmart Store in Texas. Shame on this country for allowing it to descend so far.
“It is a pity that children are being used as pawns. . .”
It is also a pity that children are being used as pawns in the standards and testing regime.
For those who want to hate Christianity, there is a 2000 year old record of man’s deviation from its precepts while calling fervently on the name of Jesus. It is hard to be a serious historian and a Christian given the horrendous nature of man as he has claimed the faith and violated so many times.
Oddly enough, I keep trying. I think I will quote the justified tax collector: God be merciful to me, a sinner.
If Sessions had used that quote and behaved like he meant it, I might sympathize with his view. Instead, he uses the gospel as a stumbling block for those with whom he disagrees, placing him in the position of the Pharises described in the Book of Mathew. The entire book is an argument using the life of Jesus against this approach to Jewish Law, arguing instead for spirit of the law interpretation. Those who cull portions of religious text to prove their point are often contradicting the general message of those very texts.
I think that most if not all Chrisitan religious denominations and sects do not practice what Jesus Christ taught by example and word. The bigger the religion, the wider the gap.
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Matthew 7:14
whereas narrow is the gate and cramped the road leading off into life, and few are finding it.
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
Matthew 7:13
“Go in through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are going in through it;
I think the broader lesson is that those of us who practice the attempt at Christianity, whether we are of one brand or another, would do well to emulate the humility exemplified by Jesus. I suspect that the application of Buddhism or Islam would find the same requirement of humility. I think humility to be a hard lesson for human beings in general and for those in positions of leadership in particular, whether they be political leaders of a sectarian movement or political leaders of a body politic.
Here’s another horror from Sessions. He has no respect for women who are being abused. This country goes to a lower level each day.
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Fareed Zakaria:
Amid widespread outcry over children separated by force from parents seeking to cross the U.S. border, another “radical decision” was made this week by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, write Caroline Bettinger-López and Rachel Vogelstein in Foreign Affairs.
“Sessions found that a domestic violence victim from El Salvador—perhaps the most dangerous country on earth in which to be a woman—would not qualify for asylum, even though her own country had utterly failed to protect her.”
It’s a radical break from U.S. policy, say Bettinger-López and Vogelstein.
“Violence against women has come to be understood as a human rights violation,” a principle now enshrined in “U.S. law and international human rights standards.”
Sessions’ decision “will undoubtedly result in death or significant harm to some of the world’s most vulnerable women: victims of domestic violence who live in countries that do not, or cannot, protect them from their abusive partners.”
This is off topic but relevant to abuse of a nation. Kim Jong Un is to call Trump if he has any difficulties? Kim is a dictator who starves and abuses his people. Good grief. I guess we’re all supposed to practice standing and bowing to the Orange IDIOT.
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Trump praises Kim Jong Un’s authoritarian rule, says ‘I want my people to do the same’ – Chicago Tribune
President Donald Trump on Friday complimented Kim Jong Un’s authoritarian rule in North Korea, observing with apparent envy that when the 35-year-old dictator speaks, “his people sit up at attention.”
“He’s the head of a country, and I mean he’s the strong head,” Trump told Fox News Channel. “Don’t let anyone think anything different. He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”…Later, when pressed by a CNN reporter about the comment, Trump claimed it had been a joke.
“I’m kidding,” he said. Admonishing the journalist, the president added, “You don’t understand sarcasm.”
During his Fox interview, Trump showered praise on Kim and said “it’s great to give him credibility.” He noted that he gave Kim “a very direct number” and instructed him to “call me if he has any difficulties.”..
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-kim-jong-un-20180615-story.html#share=email~story
And I know many trumptrainers who do sit up and listen, just like good dogs. And these people are college educated. Boy does trump have them baffled.
The Guardian published this regarding Sessions’ attempt to use the Bible to support Trump’s evil policy:
“As was quickly pointed out, Romans 13:10 has also been used to justify slavery in the past. Hitler was also fond of that particular verse. The people using Romans 13 to justify oppressing others apparently didn’t read a little further along to Romans 13:10, where it says: ‘Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.’ By the way, taking immigrant children from their parents isn’t even a law anyway — it’s a policy of Trump.
“There have been various debates over the years as to how exactly Romans 13 should be interpreted, but the larger point is that no matter how you interpret the bible, it should have absolutely no place in modern law-making. You can, after all, find a bible-verse to justify just about anything, including turning your wife into salt. If the Trump administration does want to cherry-pick from the Bible to justify its policies, however, here are a few extracts it might want to consider:
“Exodus 12:49 — “The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”
“Exodus 22: 21 — “You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way. Remember, you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”
“Deuteronomy 10:17-18 — “The Lord your God is the God of all gods and Lord of all lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who doesn’t play favorites and doesn’t take bribes. He enacts justice for orphans and widows, and he loves immigrants, giving them food and clothing.”
In addition to what The Guardian wrote, a few things happened this week that hold perhaps a glimmer of hope that the consciences of at least part of Trump’s base have finally been shocked into seeing the evil that is happening via this Administration:
And at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Cardinal Daniel DiNardo flatly declared that Trump’s children-separation policy is totally “immoral.”
On the other hand, in a speech Monday, Arizona state lawmaker David Stringer declared that immigrants are a threat to white America because “there aren’t enough white children.” This is a blatant racist appeal to what’s fueling Trump support among much of his base: Fear…fear of becoming a minority.
Why do they fear becoming a minority? Perhaps it’s because they fear that they will be treated in the same way that white America has long mistreated non-white minorities…fear of pay-back.
But, even if our nation’s border are sealed 100% at this instant, America will still become a non-white majority because the birth rate among non-white Americans is higher than that of white Americans. So, perhaps the best course of action for white Americans is to immediately stop mistreating non-white Americans. Plus, that would be the moral course to take.
Generating and maintaining fear is at the core of the Trump strategy…and fear is the very basis of modern conservatism. People who are fearful become conservative as a survival strategy, in much the same manner of the psychology of a person lost in a desert conserves his water supply, or the person fearful of not having financial stability becomes a fiscal conservative.
Harken back to the birth of the modern conservative political movement in the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater with fearful images of atomic bombs detonating. Goldwater’s motto that “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice” has been reconstituted in many ways since then, but beneath today’s updated phraseology fear remains the essence of today’s conservative politics and fascist organizations.
Anyway, let’s be hopeful and see if the outright evilness of Trump’s family-separation policy has finally triggered revulsion and realization in the souls of the evangelicals who heretofore have been his uncritical supporters.
The CR*P that the WH puts out is unbelievable. It reminds me of reading the local newspaper when I was in Kuala Lumpur. The government controls what is printed and I stopped buying the paper. There is only so much propaganda that I could take.
This was just put out by the WH:
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Why President Trump Will Be the Greatest Civil Rights President in a Generation: Darrell Scott
– Cleveland Plain Dealer
“If you combine the FIRST STEP Act with President Trump’s vocal leadership on the national stage, his success lowering minority unemployment to record-setting lows, and his executive actions to right historical wrongs, no president in recent memory has been this ambitious to help communities impacted by mass incarceration,” Pastor Darrell Scott writes.
That is amazing. So DeVos tries to eliminate the Office for Civil Rights. Trump refers to African nations as “shithole countries.” Trump rolls back civil rights protects for transgender students. Trump separates families at the border and expels Hispanics who have lived her most of their lives. Trump refers to Mexicans as rapists and murderers. Trump encourages cops to rough up suspects. And he will be a great civil rights leader? Who has been smoking what?
Here’s the biggest news you missed this weekend – USA TODAY
https://apple.news/A7HgwtN-lQp2LYOTkJE8WqQ
Trump administration is under pressure. I love ❤️ New York
reibelcastillo:Thank you for the article. I read the ‘newest’ comments. They were disgusting. We have a long way to go before these poor children and their parents will receive the help they desperately need.
carlomalaysia:Your very welcome . We have a long way to go because more Children’s are coming to our Country .
Have you read this ?
In the face of such monstrous thing this letter don’t touch your head it’s because you don’t understand your heart circumstances, we are afraid for our children’s future. The ground has been laid for children to be torn away from parents, whose faith in God has been declared “wrong.” News that information on children whose parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses is being gathered in educational and medical facilities is very worrying. It is not surprising that virtually every week whole families of our fellow believers are abandoning everything and fleeing abroad to seek political asylum for the protection of their children.
In return for freedom and a quiet life, we are being invited to disown our faith. This is not just a figure of speech—investigators have directly invited us to sign documents in order to avoid punishment for “extremism.” If not, in their words, no attorney will be able to save us. But we cannot stop believing in God. It is a right that every individual has from birth. The Russian Federation is a multi-confessional state, and we, as citizens of Russia, have the right to expect that our rights will be respected by the state. We are not asking for any special privileges. We are asking for just one thing—please, defend our rights.
Honorable members of the Council! A campaign of terror has been unleashed against an entire religion, one of the largest Christian religions in Russia. Fundamental human rights are being trampled on: the right to freedom of worship and personal inviolability, the right to personal dignity, the right to privacy, the right to the inviolability of the home, to freedom of conscience, freedom of thought, freedom of worship, the right to private property.
If the Russian government does not quickly put an end to this growing campaign of terror, the administration will be faced with a nation-wide human rights catastrophe. We are certain that you have the power to take action now! We ask that you please pass this information on to the President of the Russian Federation, and use all possible legal means to restore the rights of religious believers.
With respect, the wives of men who are being held in custody:
Carola Malaysia: I would like you meditate on my comments , I want peace between Republicans and Democrats I want peace in this Country, to many countries are mocking on us because the situation we are inside, I’m not a politician but I love children’s , I love the way you replayed it to be honest I would like you like this the way I like you , I like you because you don’t ignore me.
May God bless you , if you don’t believe in God , them may a wonderful day I hope you understand ether way I respect you and a lot .
I would like to send the lasted news if you let me . Take care
reibelcastillo: Dear Sir, I am giving my best blessings to you and your family. You care about others and want peace for all. I am also working to get peace. I do pray and meditate and hope that all nations will become peaceful and that all people will learn to respect each other. Mankind has a long way to go to achieve this peace but our working towards it means at least two more have joined the correct camp. We are all connected and god wants peace for all humans.
Your words touched my heart. May God bless you and thank you very much. I really care about others, and I’m glad you do too. I hope my heart can survive this sadness and God forgive those who are hurting innocent people. It’s sad but we can’t give up. Running from your problems is adding another one to the list. Our job is to expose everything relating with child abuse. I’m going through something very difficult due to my son leaving the County where he was born because of his abusers. The worst part is that the Government allowed this to happen and got rid off their crimes. However, God will not forgive them, unless they regret what they did and turn their lives around. I forgive them but I do not forget their names. (John F. Kennedy) Another victim of hate said those words.
Thanks. @Carolmalaysia
The letter that should travel the wold . I mean it’s traveling the world I want to expose this and I’m open to comments ,
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HuffPost: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the administration’s detention of nearly 1,500 immigrant children by citing the Bible.
In a series of heated exchanges between Sanders and reporters at Thursday’s press briefing, the press secretary seemed to have trouble explaining the reasoning behind the practice of separating children from their parents when they cross into the U.S. illegally.
After CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Sanders about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ claim that separating parents from children is rooted in the Bible, Sanders said that following the law is biblical.
“It is very biblical to enforce the law, that is actually repeated a number of times throughout the Bible,” Sanders said.
But reporters including Acosta reminded Sanders that no one was forcing the administration to hold children captive, and that there is in fact no law forcing it to separate them from their parents.
“Can you imagine the horror these kids must be going through when they come across the border?” Acosta asked. “They’re with their parents and they’re suddenly pulled away from their parents ― why is the government doing this?”
“Because it’s the law and that’s what the law states,” Sanders responded…
“You’re a parent, don’t you have any empathy?” Karem asked. “Come on, Sarah, you’re a parent. Don’t you have any empathy for what these people are going through? They have less than you do. Seriously, Sarah, seriously. These people have nothing.”
Sanders deflected the question by claiming Karem was simply looking for “more TV time.”
We used to be guided by the Constitution. It has been supplanted by the Bible. You can justify anything by citing the Bible.
I would say, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Time to rip away Ivanka’s children and put them into a detention center.
My personal belief is that a lot of the bible was written by mankind and has nothing to do with the beliefs which are true to God or Jesus. Here are some examples of ‘anything can be justified by the bible’. [PS: I like the idea, “Time to rip away Ivanka’s children and put them into a detention center”. It is not fair that the poor always suffer.]
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Religious Verses Used To Justify Terrible Atrocities
1.)“Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.”
Ephesians 6:5
Slave owners and pro-slavery pastors used the above passage to justify the African slave trade up until the 19th century. Titus 2:9 was similarly popular, proclaiming, “Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them.” The Bible was used to justify not just slavery in general but the inferiority of “dark-skinned peoples” in particular.
2.)“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ “
1 Samuel 15:2–3
Europeans quoted the above verse to excuse the murder of Native Americans. Catholics and Protestants have each quoted it in their violence against the other. Preachers quoted it to support the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Some Christians are still quoting it today to teach that the murder of men, women, and children is the righteous reaction to disbelief in God. And they’re teaching it in US schools.
3.)“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them. “
Proverbs 13:24
How To Train Up A Child, a book sold mainly to evangelical Christians, encourages parents to use branches, rulers, and plumbing supplies to hit their children. “Training” should start practically from birth—a 20-centimeter (8 in) willow branch is described as “sufficient” to beat a baby who is under a year old. Parents must totally break their children’s will to make them compliant. The authors and their defenders are clear that they believe the book’s instructions are godly, invoking the “spare the rod” mantra.
4.) If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.”
Leviticus 20:13
Many Christian pastors take the above line from Leviticus very literally. In 2012, a Kansas pastor claimed homosexuals should be put to death by the government. A pastor from Arizona supported the murder of gay people in 2013. Radio host Kevin Swanson suggested Christians should only turn up to gay weddings with a sign proclaiming the verse in full.
Trump is playing to his followers who believe immigrants are the cause of all their problems. I am SO tired of Trump and his ever-growing hatred and fear.
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Trump doubles down on family separation policy
BY JORDAN FABIAN – 06/18/18 10:22 AM EDT
President Trump on Monday doubled down on his controversial policy of separating children from parents when families illegally cross the border, while also calling on Congress to change laws to end it.
In a series of tweets, Trump appeared to justify the strategy by claiming criminals are using children in a Trojan horse–style operation to cross the U.S. border.
Trump Tweet: Children are being used by some of the worst criminals on earth as a means to enter our country. Has anyone been looking at the Crime taking place south of the border. It is historic, with some countries the most dangerous places in the world. Not going to happen in the U.S.
8:50 AM – Jun 18, 2018
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/392757-trump-doubles-down-on-family-separation-policy
I just heard on the radio a speech given by Kristen Neilsen, Secretary of Homeland Security, who says that the children are living in the best circumstances, with food, shelter, education. She was followed by the pediatrician who is president of the Academy of Child Pediatrics, who toured shelters for children under the age of 7. She saw babies on the floor, wailing inconsolably for their mothers. She wanted to hold them but no one is allowed to comfort them.
We should be condemned by the UN Commission on Human Rights, if it has not already done so.
This will go into the history books along with the Japanese concentration camps and other human rights abuses committed by our government.
UN rights chief condemns migrant family separations at US border..channel NewsAsia
WASHINGTON: The UN rights chief on Monday (Jun 18) condemned the “unconscionable” separation of migrant children from their parents at the US border, as First Lady Melania Trump made a rare political plea to end the deeply controversial practice.
The “zero-tolerance” border security policy implemented by President Donald Trump’s administration has sparked tears among migrant families and outrage on both sides of the political aisle.
It took on particular resonance as America celebrated Father’s Day.
“The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,” Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said as he opened a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He called for Washington to immediately end the practice of “forcible separation of these children.”…