Members of Sessions’ United Methodist church accuse him of child abuse for border policies, but little reaction is reported from so-called “evangelicals”. Members of both camps should wonder why.
It is indeed significant that US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reportedly a mainline or traditional Methodist, is reported to have borrowed his biblical excuse to justify what appears to be inhumane acts from popular biblical distortion of Romans Chapter 13. These errors are widely accepted by Evangelical Dispensational, or “rapture ready” churches. “Evangelicals” are repeatedly stated by the media to be the backbone of President Trump’s “Christian” support base.
We Hold These Truths and others, including 2008 presidential Candidate Pastor Chuck Baldwin, have written about the abuse of Romans Chapter 13 as an excuse for unlimited and unrestrained governmental power over individuals, be they citizens or aliens. Readers who wish to clarify their own position, or their churches’ stand on this vital question, might well look at our, Romans 13: Paul’s Coded Reality, and our recent interview with Dr. Baldwin, Constitution Party 2008, Baldwin Rejects Christian Zionism.-Editor Charles E. Carlson
CBS News Reports: Hundreds of United Methodists have brought church law charges against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is a member of the denomination. In a June 18 statement, more than 600 members of the denomination, including clergy, accused Sessions of child abuse by helping enforce the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from parents who illegally crossed the southern border.
The group of United Methodists also accuses Sessions of racial discrimination, immorality, and “dissemination of doctrines contrary to the established standards of doctrines” of the United Methodists. The Rev. David Wright, a United Methodist clergyman from Washington State, told the United Methodist News Service that he and others in the denomination decided they had to act after Sessions quoted the Bible to defend the child separation policy.
“I really never would have thought I’d be working on charges against anybody in the Methodist connection, much less a lay person,” Wright told the News Service.
The denomination’s Book of Discipline allows for a member to be expelled from the United Methodists after a trial, the Rev. William Lawrence told the News Service, but this is exceedingly rare in practice. Wright said that he does not want Sessions to be kicked out of the United Methodists, and would prefer he “reclaim his values” with the help of his pastor.
“I would look upon his being taken out of the denomination or leaving as a tragedy. That’s not what I would want from this,” Wright said.
The United Methodist Church has been critical of the Trump administration’s border policies. “The Christ we follow would have no part in ripping children from their mothers’ arms or shunning those fleeing violence. It is unimaginable that faith leaders even have to say that these policies are antithetical to the teachings of Christ,” Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe, a church leader, said in a statement over the weekend.
Former first lady Laura Bush, a United Methodist, has also deep extremely critical of the Trump administration’s child separation policy.
“It is immoral,” Bush wrote in The Washington Post over the weekend. “And it breaks my heart.”
It is immoral to commit a crime with your child in tow. Should an exception be made for the misdemeanor or felony of entering the U.S. illegally? The church should weigh in on the blame which should be placed on the perpetrators.
I’ve only recently come to hold your perspective of the evangelicals misguided and tragic embrace of Zionism. However, I’m afraid that your recent post promoting open boarders for illegal immigration is as eggrously non-Biblical as is the evangelicals non-Biblical justification for Zionism. It suggests that WHTT is promoting a globalist agenda; that WHTT is aligning itself in political fellowship with George Soros.
Please clarify showing some expressed distancing of yourselves from those promoting one world government and nations-without-boarders.
Respectfully, J Miller Ottawa OH