Good News: Jeff Sessions Charged by Church Members

[MineralMan]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/sessions-church-complaint/index.html

More than 600 members of Jeff Sessions' church just charged him with violating church rules
Updated 10:23 PM ET, Tue June 19, 2018

(CNN)More than 600 members of the United Methodist Church have issued a formal complaint against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a fellow church member, charging that his "zero tolerance" policy on immigration violates church rules and may constitute child abuse.

The complaint charges Sessions with violating the United Methodist Church's Book of Discipline, its code of laws and social principles. The charges could lead to a church trial, though few expect that to happen to the attorney general, the country's top lawman.

Instead, the 640 Methodists charging Sessions, who include both clergy and lay members, have asked for a "reconciling process that will help this longtime member ... step back from his harmful actions and work to repair the damage he is currently causing to immigrants, particularly families and children."

My thanks to those good folks!

[PJMcK]

1. Sometimes, religions hold to principles

Sometimes.

[MineralMan]

3. Sure. There are wonderful people in many churches.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with being religious. It's what you do with your beliefs that matters. Many mainline churches are chock full of nice, helpful, kind people. Not every church is a bigoted, fundamentalist, right-wing church, by any means.

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. This is the sort of thing that the sect overall probably deserves some credit for.

[Voltaire2]

5. Seems a dollar short and a day late to me.

[Pope George Ringo II]

9. When your checking account is overdrawn by $1000

You still get credit for depositing that dollar. They're still pretty badly in the hole, but it's progress.

[Voltaire2]

4. Does being an overt racist shithead violate

their rules? He’s been that his entire political career.

[MineralMan]

6. Probably. I don't know the rules that apply.

Jeff Sessions is a dyed-in-the-wool racist asshole, though. Everyone knows that. I guess he finally wore out his "Judge not" passes.

[Capperdan]

7. Kick him out

How about they banish him?

[vi5]

8. Wow, a whole 600?

If they mean his specific physical church that he attends, then that is impressive.

If they mean the entire United Methodist Church as a whole......forgive me if that's an underwhelming number.