One of the most compelling and wonderful public speeches exposing the hypocrisy and blatant disregard for the fundamental principles of Christian ideology can be found below:
“It’s very difficult to sit here and listen to arguments in the long history of this country of using scripture and weaponizing and abusing scripture to justify bigotry. White supremacists have done it, those who justified slavery did it, those who fought against integration did it. And we’re seeing it today and sometimes especially in this body, I feel as though Christ himself walked through these doors and said what he said thousands of years ago. That we should love our neighbor and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, fight for the least of us, that it is easier for a rich man it’s easier for a camel to go to the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into a kingdom of heaven, that he would be maligned as a radical, and rejected from these doors.
I know, and it is part of my faith that all people are holy and all people are sacred unconditionally. That is what prompts us to transform, because it is unconditional. It’s not that it is up to us to love parts of people, we love all people. There is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people, no matter who they are on the grounds of what their identity is. There is nothing holy about turning someone away from the hospital. There’s nothing holy about rejecting a child from a family. There’s nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law, and I am tired of communities of faith, being weaponized and being mischaracterized because the only time religious freedom is invoked is in the name of bigotry and discrimination. I’m tired of it. It is not up to us. It is not up to us to deny medical care. It is up to us to feed the hungry, to clothe the poor, to protect children and to love all people as ourselves”
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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