Jeff Sessions heckled by 2 pastors at an event on religious freedom

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been heckled by religious leaders for his approach to the migrant crisis at an event devoted to freedom of religion Monday morning.

While Sessions spoke of freedom of religion in Boston's lawyers of the conservative federalist society, two unidentified religious leaders interrupted his speech, according to the newspaper. video sequences from ABC News. The first man, clad in a secretary's necklace, quoted passages attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: "I was hungry and you did not feed me. I was a stranger and you did not welcome me. I was naked and you did not dress me up. The verses are often read as an exhortation of Jesus to care for the poor, the sick, and the marginalized.

He then identified himself as a unified Methodist confrere – the Christian denomination to which the sessions belong – saying, "Brother Jeff, as Methodist fellow, I ask you to repent, to take care of those who are in need, to remind you that do not worry about others, you hurt the body of Christ. "

Although the man did not explicitly indicate what he was criticizing for Sessions, the Attorney General has often been criticized by some religious groups for his uncompromising immigration stance, particularly for his role in the promulgation of the separation policy of migrant families of the Trump administration. Sessions is currently advocating for a reduction in the number of asylum applications in the United States, while a caravan of 4,000 migrants from Honduras is currently heading to the US-Mexico border.

His companion, who only identified himself as a Baptist pastor, stood up to make a second speech, but was drowned by hoots and cries of "going home" from the public. While he was escorted to the outside, the Baptist pastor accused his audience of being a "hypocrite" for having advocated politically for religious freedom, only to deny him the freedom of religion. opportunity to express one's religious faith by citing the gospel during the event.

The sessions seemed to mock the interruption by saying to her audience, "I do not believe there is anything in the scriptures … [or my] A theology that says a secular nation-state can not have legal laws to control immigration … is not immoral, or indecent, or indecent, to state what your laws are and then to enforce them. "His listeners responded with a thunderous applause.

This is not the first time that Jeff Sessions has been criticized by religious leaders for his role in the migrant crisis. In June, during the crisis related to the separation of migrant families, 600 clergy and members of the United Methodist Church lodged a complaint against Sessions, himself a Methodist, for his role in the crisis.

Sessions was accused of racism, child abuse, immoral behavior and spreading heretical Bible teaching – a reference to its use of the Romans 13 Bible verse to justify the submission of Christians to government policy on migration . The charges were dropped two months later. District Superintendent Barbara Bishop, who is in charge of the Sessions Church, said in a statement that "political action is not personal behavior when the politician applies official policy."

The protests of the two presumed clergy at this event illustrate the increasingly visible role that the religious left, including the main Protestants and some evangelicals, plays under the Trump administration.

From last spring to the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, theological evocative of the release by Bishop Episcopal President Michael Curry to the defender of the retired Episcopal Bishop, Gene Robinson, increasingly more religious leaders are using their platform to spread a message of political resistance.

Or, in the case of these two men, simply share the gospel.