Sohn: One church finds its backbone with Trump, Sessions

Christopher Baker, 3, holds a sign that reads "Which baby deserves to sleep in a cage?" as he attends a Poor People's Campaign rally with his mother, Katie Baker, behind the sign, on Monday at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Christopher Baker, 3, holds a sign that reads "Which baby deserves to sleep in a cage?" as he attends a Poor People's Campaign rally with his mother, Katie Baker, behind the sign, on Monday at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash.

By Pam Sohn June 20, 2018 3 min read

Perhaps there still is morality in our country.

Outrage is building over images of immigrant children ripped from their parents’ arms and caged at our country’s Southern border.

And, bless his authoritarian small head, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week upped the ante when he chose to justify those barbaric actions with Scripture from the Bible.

On Monday, 640 members of Sessions’ denomination, the United Methodist Church, filed a “formal complaint” against him, condemning Sessions for the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant parents and children at the U.S. border. The document asks the clergy of Sessions’ home church, the Ashland Place United Methodist Church in Mobile, Ala., to counsel him.

The signers note in the letter that they accuse Sessions of child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of the doctrine of the United Methodist Church. The example used for doctrines is “the misuse of Romans 13.”