Clergy Arrested in McConnell's office

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Source: The Charlotte Observer

BY BRIAN MURPHY
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WASHINGTON
Capitol Hill police arrested the president of the North Carolina NAACP on Thursday morning after he led a protest of the Senate’s proposed health care repeal-and-replace bill.

Rev. William J. Barber II was released from jail by 2 p.m. In the morning, he and other faith leaders led a group of about 50 people to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s office in the U.S. Capitol. The group gathered a few blocks away at 10 a.m. and walked to the Capitol, chanting and singing along the way. Many carried signs that said “Love Thy Neighbor. (No exceptions.)”

Once the group entered the Capitol and gathered outside McConnell’s office, several leaders spoke, couching their objections to the proposed legislation in moral and religious terms. McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, was not present at any point during the protest.

[Senate GOP revises health care bill, but prospects still uncertain]

Two individuals who have pre-existing conditions also spoke to the protesters as police shouted warnings. After several warnings from police telling the protesters to disperse, officers arrested seven women and four men and charged them with “crowding, obstructing, or incommoding,” according to Capitol Hill Police.

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McConnell has declared war on the disabled and everyone in this country when it comes to health care

[mountain grammy]

1. The Rev. William J Barber II is the conscience of this country.

Support the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Only an idiot would want to make trouble for such a good man. n/t

[OnDoutside]

7. I was highly impressed by him, on hearing his Dem Convention speech, and subsequently.

[mountain grammy]

8. He's the real deal.

[Delphinus]

9. Oh,

I really like him - I'm so glad to know he was there.

[bobbieinok]

3. You do not seem to understand

1) He is black. Excuse enough.

2) Against Democrats there is NO separation of Church and State.
But there is a deep chasm between the 2 if a representative of the Church
speaks against a GOP policy

3) Only fundagelicals have moral credibility permitting them
to take public stands.

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[riversedge]

5. Good "It is time to stop calling God by other names when you really want to call God capitalism.

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Clergy arrested at McConnell’s office for protesting health care bill as “political murder”
By Leah McElrath | July 13, 2017



Pastor Traci Blackmon confronted McConnell for his grotesque hypocrisy:

We are here to make sure that you to do what you were elected to do. As I look at this plaque with your name on it, it says that you represent the people of Kentucky. And I happen to know that the people of Kentucky will suffer if this health care bill passes. You may be OK. Your friends may be OK. But the people who put you in office will suffer because of this bill.

It is time to stop calling God by other names when you really want to call God “capitalism.” It is time to stop cloaking your greed in religious language.

I’m here to tell you that there ain’t nothing right about the religion that’s happening in these halls. This should be where we come for help. And yet we are coming crying out on behalf of the people to stop some of the most egregious legislation that we have seen in a long time.

If you can turn your backs on 22 [million] additional people, don’t tell me that you are pro-life. If you can turn your backs on people who are suffering from conditions that will no longer be able to be treated, don’t tell me you are pro-life.

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During the protest, Barber tweeted, “Kill the death bill & let the people live!” and decried the Senate health care repeal bill as an act of “political murder” against the poor.

[RhodeIslandOne]

6. The War on Christians continues!!!

I'm sure Sean Hannity will be all over this! Right? Right????

[Sunlei]

10. I LOVE THESE HEROS FOR AMERICA

[KentuckyWoman]

11. Who's attacking Christianity?

The GOP had ministers arrested for quoting Jesus in a government office.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. Damn!!!