Pastor Taken Out of Jeff Sessions Speech After Telling Him ‘To Repent’ and ‘Care For Those in Need’
While speaking about religious liberty to a group in Boston, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interrupted during a speech this morning after a United Methodist pastor began talking over the official while trying to call him to reptenece and caring “for those in need.”
“I was hungry and you did not feed me. I was a stranger and you did not welcome me. I was naked and you did not clothe me. I was a stranger and you did not welcome me,” the unnamed pastor shouted this morning, quoting a Bible verse found in Matthew. “Brother Jeff, as a fellow United Methodist I call upon you to repent, to care for those in need, to remember that when you do not care for others, you are wounding the body of Christ.”
Sessions responded by defending himself against the religious criticisms: “Thank you for those remarks and attack, but I would just tell you we do our best every day to fulfill my responsibility to enforce the laws of the United States.”
A second person was reportedly taken out of the room as well after they stood up and defended the pastor’s “free exercise of religion.”
“I don’t believe there’s anything in my theology that says a secular nation-state cannot have lawful laws to control immigration in this country,” Sessions said after the protesters were removed. “It’s not immoral, not indecent and not unkind to state what your laws are and then set about to enforce them, in my view. I feel like that’s my responsibility and that’s what I intend to do.”
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