San Antonio mayor blames poverty on broken people who arent in a relationship with their creator

[LiberalArkie]

The mayor of San Antonio told a group of conservative Christians that she believes poor people are responsible for their own poverty.

Mayor Ivy Taylor spoke earlier this month to the Christian Coalition, the successor to the nonprofit political organization founded by Pat Robertson, where the 46-year-old Democrat was asked to comment on “systemic causes of generational poverty, reported the Huffington Post.

“Since you’re with the Christian Coalition, I’ll go ahead and put it out there that to me, it’s broken people,” Taylor said. “People not being in a relationship with their creator and therefore not being in a good relationship with their families and their communities and not being productive members of society.”

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/san-antonio-mayor-poverty-atheism_us_58fd83f7e4b06b9cb917cfb8

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/san-antonio-mayor-blames-poverty-on-broken-people-who-arent-in-a-relationship-with-their-creator/

[shenmue]

1. What an idiot

[shadowmayor]

2. Truly dangerous

This line of thinking excludes all else. No room for critical analysis, empathy, complexity or reality. The god squad is one of the major impediments to our society and culture progressing in a way that is just and fair. I have so little tolerance for people who speak like this, and tax-dodger Pat Robertson can go choke on a turd.

[beam me up scottie]

3. Unfortunately this 'reasoning' is all too common.

Many Americans still believe one has to be a Christian to behave ethically and that we need a bronze age holy book to define morality.

[Greybnk48]

4. The "Mayor" needs to leave office and go back to the church

she slithered in from with her hard, ugly views of people not a lucky as her.

[Ilsa]

5. This is a Democrat? nt

[dsc]

10. sort of

from the sounds of it she runs as an independent but registers Democrat to vote in the primaries.

[Initech]

11. Yeah I was thinking the same thing!

[ProudLib72]

6. Last month it was because

poor people were spending too much on cell phones, refrigerators, and tv. So now they have to give up all their possessions and commit themselves wholly to God? Sound a little televangelist to anyone else?

[spanone]

7. this country has lost any sense of empathy. sad nation

[Solly Mack]

8. The Mayor claims her answer was edited. Here is the video of her answers in full.

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https://twitter.com/IvyRTaylor

Link to tweet

Her remarks about poor people/systemic/generational poverty and their lack of a relationship with a deity being the primary cause begins at the 1:07 mark. She says exactly what is being claimed she said.

She also says that's not how she approaches it politically. Though she does like to cast herself as the religious candidate in the Q&A.

She claims her reason for saying what she did was her belief in Original sin - which to her means all people are broken without a relationship to a deity, all people sin. And she applies it to rich people as well. Which contradicts her claim that a lack of relationship to a deity is the primary cause of generational poverty.

It can't be both. What? Poor people are poor because of a lack of relationship with a deity but rich people are rich because of a lack of a relationship with a deity? May some deity punish me with wealth for my lack of belief. Just saying.

So, according to her clarification - all people, whether rich or poor, are born into original sin, without a relationship to a deity. That without said relationship you are broken, and that such is the primary cause of generational poverty - because it creates broken people....even though being rich, by definition, means you're not living in poverty/generational poverty.

So, a lack of a relationship with a deity is the cause of both being rich and being poor? If you're rich, you're broken and godless? If you're poor, you're broken and godless?

If you're poor you must not believe in a deity? You've been slacking in the god-loving relationship department? Otherwise you'd be rich? Who, it seems, are also godless and broken....but not living in generational poverty.

Yet, somehow, a lack of a relationship with a deity is the primary cause of generational poverty? Though, because of original sin, it applies to rich people too.

She said what she said and her clarification was as much bullshit as her original remark.

Much like Spicer, she should forgo clarifying her remarks in the future. Only makes it worse.


Sure, she could have been mixing together her philosophic and/or metaphoric poverty (poverty of the soul) with actual poverty (you know, going hungry, poor living conditions or even homeless, no heat, no clothing, etc..) but I think she was pandering and tripped over her own tongue in the process.

[rusty fender]

9. She claims that a person

will always be broken until he/she believes in God. I could do without a Democratic politician like this.