Zelensky: 'Absolutely Fair' to Attack Targets Inside Russia.Exclusive Video - Trump Bashes 'Mobsters' in Biden 'Crime Family'.Nolte: 6 Reasons Hollywood’s in Real Trouble This Time.“People who will politicize a funeral will do anything, and they’re trying to,” he added.Ģ020 Election Faith Politics Barack Obama Christianity Funeral Holy Bible John Lewis Raphael G. And why wouldn’t it? Political power is their religion. Desecrating a funeral with campaign slogans - what kind of person would do that? But Democrats in the audience didn’t seem offended. Can you imagine that? You would be shocked if that happened. Obama’s political eulogy drew heavy criticism from conservatives, including Fox News’s Tucker Carlson, who said on Thursday:īut take three steps back - imagine if some greasy politician showed up at your loved one’s funeral and started throwing around stupid partisan talking points about Senate procedure. George Wallace of Alabama, and compared federal law enforcement officers to the police who beat civil rights marchers across the South. Without mentioning Donald Trump by name, Obama likened the president to segregationist Democrat Gov. “And if all this takes is ending the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that’s what we should do.” Obama said Democrats should go beyond that legislation and also enact laws making voter registration automatic, granting the vote to ex-convicts, and making Election Day a national holiday, among other changes. “You want to honor John? Let’s honor him by revitalizing the law that he was willing to die for,” Obama said as part of a call to pass a new version of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Warnock, after referencing the scripture, encouraged the crowd to “recommit” to “standing together and fighting together and voting together and standing up on behalf of truth and righteousness together.”įormer President Barack Obama also spoke at the funeral and ushered in a political flavor, suggesting that Republicans “had imitated Jim Crow-era restrictions on voting rights, which Lewis marched against, by passing state voter ID laws and other measures that conservatives argue prevent voter fraud,” as Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak detailed. We have turned, every one, to his own way Īnd the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, Isaiah 53: 4-6, which Warnock partially quoted, reads (emphasis added):īut He was wounded for our transgressions, Acts 8:26-34, 1 Peter 2:12-25) as a messianic prophecy about his crucifixion, atoning for mankind’s sins. The original scripture, found in Isaiah 53, is interpreted by the apostles of Jesus (e.g. The chastisement of our peace was upon him.Īnd by his stripes, we are healed." /fw7vL8eZT0 "He was wounded for America's transgressions. And by his stripes, we are healed,” he said to an agreeing crowd: The chastisement of our peace was upon him. “He was wounded for America’s transgressions. “We celebrate John Lewis,” he said, before modifying a scripture out of Isaiah and applying it to Lewis. The blood of the martyrs,” Warnock said, listing activists and their sacrifices, including “the blood of John Lewis.” What he etched in ink has already by sanctioned by blood. Johnson picked up his pen to sign the voting rights bill into law. John Lewis (D-GA) during Thursday’s funeral service by inserting the civil rights figure into a Bible verse which Christians almost universally consider a reference to Jesus Christ. Warnock, leader of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, memorialized the late Rep.
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