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Those fabulous nuns are back!!!!!
Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders Are Quoting the Bible—and These Nuns Are Not Having It
Sister Simone wasn’t buying it. “Give me a break,” she said, “‘it is very biblical to enforce the law’ couldn’t be further from the truth.”
The executive director of Network, the national Catholic social-justice lobby, took to Twitter to declare: “It is very biblical to love one another, support families, welcome the stranger, Hunger and thirst for justice. It is NOT biblical to create bad orders and force ICE to tear families apart. WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS SCANDALOUS BEHAVIOR AND OUTRAGEOUS JUSTIFICATION!”
Sister Simone put scripture to good use as she distinguished between just and unjust laws, explaining that “Saint Augustine said, ‘An unjust law is no law at all.’ It is very biblical to enforce just laws, not this travesty.”
Many religious leaders raised objections to Trump administration justifications for policies that were so unjustifiable that the president eventually overturned some of the cruelest elements with an executive order. “It is not biblical to treat migrants and refugees like animals,” observed Father James Martin SJ, the editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. “It is not biblical to take children away from their parents. It is not biblical to ignore the needs of the stranger. It is not biblical to enforce unjust laws. Do not use the Bible to justify sin.”
The executive director of Network, the national Catholic social-justice lobby, took to Twitter to declare: “It is very biblical to love one another, support families, welcome the stranger, Hunger and thirst for justice. It is NOT biblical to create bad orders and force ICE to tear families apart. WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS SCANDALOUS BEHAVIOR AND OUTRAGEOUS JUSTIFICATION!”
Sister Simone put scripture to good use as she distinguished between just and unjust laws, explaining that “Saint Augustine said, ‘An unjust law is no law at all.’ It is very biblical to enforce just laws, not this travesty.”
Many religious leaders raised objections to Trump administration justifications for policies that were so unjustifiable that the president eventually overturned some of the cruelest elements with an executive order. “It is not biblical to treat migrants and refugees like animals,” observed Father James Martin SJ, the editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. “It is not biblical to take children away from their parents. It is not biblical to ignore the needs of the stranger. It is not biblical to enforce unjust laws. Do not use the Bible to justify sin.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/jeff-sessions-sarah-huckabee-sanders-quoting-bible-nuns-not/
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their "very Biblical...
".. We have the Nuns on the Bus.. "It is very biblical to enforce just laws, not this travesty.”
Thank You, ehrnst and Nuns on the Bus!
WWJD? I’m pretty convinced HE would ride the bus with these ladies and throw the scripture bending Huckabees under it. 
