Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yesterday tweeted:
“Sick and tired of Republicans who co-opt faith as an excuse to advance bigotry and barbarism.”
This comes while the Senate is holding confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court. Republicans are using Barrett’s Catholic faith to cloak her right-wing ghoulishness. AOC is Catholic too.
AOC’s tweet echoed comments she made in Congress last February on using “religious freedom” as a cloak for bigotry:
“It’s very difficult to sit here and listen to arguments in the long history of this country of using [Christian] Scripture and weaponizing and abusing Scripture to justify bigotry. White supremacists have done it. Those who justified slavery did it. Those who fought against [racial] integration did it. And we’re seeing it today.
“And sometimes, especially in this body I feel as though if Christ himself walked through these doors and said what he said thousands of years ago, that we should love our neighbour and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, fight for the least of us, that
it is easier for a rich man,it’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into a kingdom of heaven, he would be maligned as a radical and rejected from these doors.“And I know, and it is part of my faith, that all people are holy, and all people are sacred. Unconditionally. And that is what makes faith sometimes, that’s what, what prompts us to transform. Because it is unconditional. It is not about that it is up to us to love parts of people. We love all people.
“There is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people, no matter who they are on the grounds of what their identity is. There is nothing holy about turning someone from a hospital. There is nothing holy about, about rejecting a child from a family. There is nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
“And I am tired of communities
of beingof faith being weaponized and being mischaracterized. Because the only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of bigotry and discrimination. I’m tired of it.“My faith commands me to treat Mr Minton as holy. Because he is sacred. Because his life is sacred. Because you are not to be denied anything that I am, that I am entitled to. That we are equal in the eyes of the law and we are equal, in my faith, in the eyes of the world.
“And so I just have to get that out ahead of time because it is deeply disturbing, not just what is happening here, but what this Administration is advancing, is the idea that religion and faith is about exclusion. It is not up to us. It is not up to us to deny medical care. It is up to us to feed the hungry, to clothe the poor, to protect children, and love all people as ourselves.”
– Abagond, 2020.
See also:
- Minton v Dignity Health – Evan Minton was turned away by the Dignity Health hospital chain because he was transgender. Most of its hospitals are Catholic.
- Amy Coney Barrett
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- White Evangelical Protestants
- The Southern strategy
- The term “pro-life”
- Catholic
- White American Catholics
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Abagond 
IF, I still believed in white Jesus — I’d have to say (as I was raised), “AMEN, and AMEN a-damned-gain!!” FOR.EVERY.WORD AOC uttered!!!
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now it’s the ‘public option’ of healthcare, enchante!
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I feel the same way as AOC.
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Thank you for sharing. It needed saying. Likely fell on deaf ears but, it needed saying.
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What is that on her forehead?
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@manubantu: AOC is Catholic, so it was probably Ash Wednesday at the time of that photo. It’s ashes in the sign of the cross. Ash Wednesday is during Holy Week, leading up to Good Friday and Easter Sunday (Resurrection Sunday).
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@ Mary @ munubantu
Correction: Ash Wednesday is NOT during Holy Week. It is at the start of Lent, 46 days before Easter, the day after Mardi Gras, usually in February.
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@ Mary @ Abagond
OK. Thank you.
We have the same ritual here too, but the ashes appear oft more blurred.
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@ munubantu
Here too. AOC’s cross is almost artistic by comparison.
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@Abagond: Thank you I stand corrected.
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religion and racism ,AOC looks silly with the ash on her forehead and most leftist religious people can’t make the final analysis and commitment.
Christianity is white racism formalized and neither has any logical or factual foundation.
but just like MLK and Nelson Mandela ,who claim to resist and be opposed to the oppression by white people
but their most potent and insulting abuse – the forceful removal of our languages culture and religions
nope ,gonna forget about it and now practice the one forced on me as my own.
even the image of a white jesus?
yep
well then I can only conclude for whatever reason your not serious ,as the results of the last fifty years show.
I grew up being indocrinated that MLK was a great and good person to be admired and respected.
But from what I know now of Christianity as well as protests its not surprising he died the way he did and the movement progressed as it did.
At least the black panthers and malcom x for the numerous mistakes where not
religious or Christian.
And as we know the possiblity of african americans enmasse giving up religion
Is as likely as there ever being a end to proverty and ,homelessness in america
and me the athiest can’t help see a kind of brutal justice in it all
as they seem as interrelated and mutally dependent as women always being refered to as “b–hes” but having more social advantages and some being willing to ruthless lie for financial security.
You don’t get one without the other
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