Finally the Trump administration has gone too far even for his evangelical base in this new policy of forcibly separating children from their immigrant parents at the border, even those who are applying for asylum.
AG Jeff Sessions tried to justify it by quoting from the Bible about obeying the law because God has ordained the law. Matthew Schlimm, a professor at Dubuque Theological Seminary, said: "It makes my blood boil." It takes that verse completely out of the context of a passage that's about loving others, including your enemies.
Schlimm notes that the Bible has similarly been used to justify slavery and Nazism. "Sessions follows the pattern of history. What's chilling is to think that we again live in such morally deranged times."
Let there be no doubt. Trump is lying to blame this on Democrats who won't vote to fund his wall. This is a policy change -- they even named it "zero tolerance" -- that was instituted by the Trump administration. Trump could change it in a moment if he wanted to. Instead, in his amoral, inhumane, transactional way, he's using these kids as bargaining chips to get something he wants -- his way about immigration and his big, beauitiful Wall.
Ralph
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