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Excerpt: "Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday used a Bible verse to defend his department's policy of prosecuting everyone who crosses the border from Mexico, suggesting that God supports the government in separating immigrant parents from their children."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Getty Images)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (photo: Getty Images)

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By Julie Zauzmer and Keith McMillan, The Washington Post

15 June 18



















The chapter itself can be interpreted in varying ways.








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+10 # Rodion Raskolnikov 2018-06-15 16:07
Phew!! When will this misfit be fired. If the media keeps up its drone attack on Sessions, he will be driven out of office. It has not worked yet against Scott Pruitt, but maybe Sessions is a lower hanging fruit because the stakes are higher and more visible.

It will be a relief to see this bigot gone.
+4 # PeacefulGarden 2018-06-15 21:56
It is just like a chess game, right? But with people who don't have a single emotion about other people. Just hanging fruit.
+2 # AldoJay69 2018-06-16 12:09
According to Tony Schwartz, who wrote The Art of the Deal for Donald Trump, Trump lacks a soul and lacks a heart and is just a void of emptiness...
0 # Rodion Raskolnikov 2018-06-17 07:43
Very likely this is true, but it is also true of many others in Trump's position. Hillary, Obama, Bush -- they all seemed voids of emptiness to me.

We have a real problem in the way our society rewards and promotes people like this. It also discourages people with real hearts and souls. I wish this could become a litmus test for every election.

Sometimes, a politician is a good faker. This was Obama's case. So it would always be hard to tell.
+3 # lfeuille 2018-06-16 00:34
Trump could override him if he was so inclined. He is doing Trumps bidding.
0 # Rodion Raskolnikov 2018-06-17 07:47
Ife -- agree and that is why he has not fired Sessions. This is Trump's policy.

But it is more than than too. Every since the early 2000s, there has been in Washington and the media a strong push to end the "catch and release" policy of ICE. Even the derogatory name shows how much of official US opinion dislikes releasing a captured suspected immigrant without proper document with only a summons to appear in court. That's how it should be done. No one should sit in pre-trial detention. They have lives to live and children to care for. But the "law and order crowd -- which includes the Clintons -- hate "catch and release."

So now we are where we are. When parents are put in jail, children are sent to foster care.
+2 # chrisconno 2018-06-16 01:55
How can the stakes be higher than global climate disruption?
Admittedly, Sessions is a pretty rotten apple and would like to annihilate non whites, but the climate could wipe us all out.
+2 # AldoJay69 2018-06-16 12:04
"Funny, he wasn't citing Romans to obey govt when the black guy was POTUS.
Also, Paul isn't Jesus.
Also, the people Paul wrote this to were the ones who eventually beheaded him.
Also, if you believe that Joseph & Mary fled & hid out in Egypt then Jesus was an undocumented child."
-John Fugelsang
Note: Don't argue the Bible with John Fugelsang!
0 # Rodion Raskolnikov 2018-06-17 07:49
Aldo -- "Also, if you believe that Joseph & Mary fled & hid out in Egypt then Jesus was an undocumented child."

yeah, and look what they did to him.
+7 # lfeuille 2018-06-16 00:32
Mr. Sessions, You are aware, aren't you, that the Bible is not the Constitution. Ever hear of "separation of church and state"? Keep you flaky religious opinions out of our government.
+7 # barbell1941 2018-06-16 08:14
Why would God's admonition to obey the laws of government not apply to Trump and his cabinet? That special place in hell Navaro refers to is really reserved for these idiots.
+4 # Kootenay Coyote 2018-06-16 08:15
St. Paul’s comment clearly presupposes good government, & thus hardly applies to the Trump Gang. & this is in the Bible too:

You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness. You shall not follow a majority in wrongdoing…. You shall not pervert the justice due to the poor in their lawsuits…. You shall not oppress a resident alien,; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
Exodus 23/1,2,6,9
+3 # Diane_Wilkinson_Trefethen_aka_tref 2018-06-16 12:03
My problem with so many vocal Christians is that they have no compunction about claiming that words in the Bible mean whatever they want them to mean on one issue but then they ignore those words on other issues, or worse, they claim those same words mean something else. So regarding Romans, which is it? Obey regardless of whether a law is just or unjust or obey only when YOU think a law is just?

For the record, what Sessions said about Romans 13 is not true. He said it commands us, “to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained the government for his purposes.” However, verse 1 states, “Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.” So while Paul makes it crystal clear that the powers that be are GOD’S POWERS, Sessions misappropriates “powers that be” to mean “the government”.

If you have any doubt about what “powers that be” means, here is verse 2. “Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.” If Sessions’ interpretation were correct, then Paul is telling us that to disobey the LAW condemns one to damnation. Really? Disobeying a law condemns one to Hell? Every law? Even laws that prohibit discrimination against gays? Like the one that requires a baker to bake a wedding cake for all customers, not just Christian ones? Hmmm. . . why do I think not.
