Religious leaders arrested in Capitol

[rug]

Jul 28, 1:57 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eleven religious leaders protesting budget cuts affecting the poor were arrested in the Capitol Thursday as the House began debate on a bill to cut spending and raise the debt ceiling.

Before making the arrests, police cleared the Capitol Rotunda where the protesters, organized by the group Common Cause, were kneeling, praying and singing.

Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine said on the House floor that they were praying for those who will be "hurt the hardest" by the bill being considered.

One of those detained, Rev. Michael Livingston, past president of the National Council of the Churches of Christ, said: "Our elected officials are protecting corporations and wealthy individuals while shredding the safety net for millions of the most vulnerable people in our nation and abroad."

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[AmericaIsGreat]

1. Wonder how so many Christian Republicans reconcile things like this

With their views that the rich are "the money" and "the jobs" and we should give them more and the poor got that way because they are sinners and all that shit.

[checks-n-balances]

2. They've been so conditioned to actually follow Ayn Rand rather

than the true Jesus, whose teachings lifted up the powerless and vulnerable. Their church leaders get away with ignoring his teachings because people flock to those kinds of churches to get their lopsided beliefs reinforced.

American Christianity has become a haven for rationalizing selfishness and "being too heavenly-minded to be any earthly good." Not to mention very Republican.