{"id":566161,"date":"2021-06-16T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566161"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:37:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:37:46","slug":"the-filibuster-is-sinful-left-wing-minister-questions-joe-manchins-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-filibuster-is-sinful-left-wing-minister-questions-joe-manchins-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Filibuster Is Sinful\u2019: Left-Wing Minister Questions Joe Manchin\u2019s Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-filibuster-is-sinful-left-wing-minister-questions-joe-manchins-faith%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566161&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1220016808.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A left-wing activist and minister has told Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) that refusing to abolish the filibuster is a \u201cmoral contradiction\u201d to the senator\u2019s Christian faith, claiming that the filibuster \u201cis sinful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Rev. William J. Barber II led 200 people in a protest dubbed the \u201cMoral March on Manchin\u201d outside the senator\u2019s office in Charleston. There, they <a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/letters\/letter-to-senator-manchin\/\">read<\/a> a \u201cLetter to Senator Manchin from Moral and Religious Leaders,\u201d which said Manchin\u2019s support for the filibuster called into question his religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a public servant who professes a faith guided by love, justice, and mercy and who has sworn a public oath to support and defend the Constitution, your public statements about the filibuster are a moral contradiction,\u201d the letter said. \u201cThe filibuster as it is currently being used is not just bad policy. It is sinful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter claims that \u201c[t]he filibuster continues to block the very things our faith traditions proclaim to be just and right,\u201d specifying only the failure to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour (thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/bernie-sanders-minimum-wage-senate\">eight Senate Democrats<\/a> siding with the chamber\u2019s Republicans). That follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/revdrbarber\/status\/1382900304295890948\">tweet<\/a> in April that says: \u201cBy supporting the filibuster, you are either an advocate or enabler of systemic racism, voter suppression, greed, the denial of health care, and the denial of living wages. We have been working with this political sin far too long!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.337874659401\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By supporting the filibuster, you are either an advocate or enabler of systemic racism, voter suppression, greed, the denial of health care, and the denial of living wages. We have been working with this political sin far too long! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DontFilibusterDemocracy?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DontFilibusterDemocracy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PoorPeoplesCampaign?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PoorPeoplesCampaign<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lS70SYuOvq\">pic.twitter.com\/lS70SYuOvq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II (@RevDrBarber) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevDrBarber\/status\/1382900304295890948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reverend didn\u2019t specify which verse of the Bible says, \u201cThou shalt not filibuster,\u201d and he didn\u2019t say whether the filibuster was immoral the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/democrats-used-filibuster-over-300-times-gop-once\">327 times<\/a> Democrats used the filibuster in 2020 \u2014 let alone when they employed it to kill protections for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/01\/26\/democrats-have-vigorously-used-filibuster-its-pathetic-they-now-wont-pledge-protect-it\/\">babies born alive<\/a> during botched abortions.<\/p>\n<p>But then Barber has a long history of twisting theology to fit his ideologically driven religious pronouncements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/influencewatch.org\/person\/rev-dr-william-j-bar%E2%80%A6\">Barber<\/a>, the head of the Poor People\u2019s Campaign, told his \u201cMoral Monday\u201d followers to march alongside Planned Parenthood to oppose a bill that would require abortion facilities to meet the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2013\/07\/11\/abortions-nc\/2510783\/\">same health and safety standards<\/a> as any other surgical center. He worked with the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider again in Alabama against a bill that would <a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2019\/05\/30\/william-barber-planned-parenthood\/\">protect<\/a> most unborn life.<\/p>\n<p>The moral confusion continued as Barber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RevDrBarber\/posts\/3700316376754875\">applauded<\/a> the passage of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-equality-act-destroys-religious-liberty-heres-what-you-need-to-know\">Equality Act<\/a>.\u201d The Alliance Defending Freedom <a href=\"https:\/\/adflegal.org\/equality-act\">calls<\/a> the act a \u201cdeliberate and unprecedented threat to free speech, religious freedom, and the progress that women have made toward true equal treatment under the law.\u201d The bill would replace the religious liberties provided by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (which was signed into law in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and introduced by Chuck Schumer) with an act of secular imperialism, while also denying biological women the right to privacy.<\/p>\n<p>But Barber\u2019s movement isn\u2019t merely <em>against<\/em> things; the reverend positively endorses socialism. Barber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dan-crenshaw-responds-dnc-pastor-no-christianity-james-barrett\">asserted<\/a> that people who believe in \u201cthe Bible must then promote socialism, because Jesus offered free healthcare, and He never charged the leper a co-pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Jesus also never worked for the government, nor did the Bible ever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djameskennedy.org\/video-detail\/1901ttt-the-bankruptcy-of-socialism\">command<\/a> Christians to outsource their good deeds to impersonal federal bureaucracies. Lawrence Reed literally <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/resources\/rendering-unto-caesar-was-jesus-a-socialist\/#0\">wrote the book<\/a> comprehensively refuting the notion that Jesus was a socialist. This author has also addressed most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=2266&#038;v=N0FSS-xO3PQ&#038;feature=emb_logo\">more common arguments<\/a> that the Bible demands government redistribution of wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Opposing socialism is hardly an innovation; it is the traditional teaching of every major branch of Christianity. Socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/luxemburg\/1905\/misc\/socialism-churches.htm\">complained<\/a> that Orthodox Christian \u201cbelievers who go to church on Sundays and festivals are compelled, more and more often, to listen to \u2026 a real indictment of Socialism.\u201d The great Baptist preacher C.H. Spurgeon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spurgeongems.org\/vols22-24\/chs1420.pdf\">warned<\/a> that \u201csocialis<em>m<\/em>\u00a0may yet pollute the mass of mankind.\u201d And one of the many papal encyclicals that condemning Marxism <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/pius-xi\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_p-xi_enc_19310515_quadragesimo-anno.html\">states<\/a>, \u201cNo one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet Barber sublimates his faith to his political views to such an extent that he even politicized the terrorist attack against Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) by a radical left-wing assailant. As Scalise lay in a hospital bed hovering between life and death, Barber implied that, if Scalise survived, he needed to repent of his Republicanism. While Barber told \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JGQEdDySUVI\">AM Joy<\/a>\u201d that Americans should \u201cbe united\u201d in prayer for Scalise, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bozell-graham-joy-reids-immoral-moment-l-brent-bozell-iii\">continued<\/a>: \u201cAll of those that were injured needed healthcare, so now will they go back to work and \u2026 preserve the Affordable Care Act, move the universal healthcare, and make sure preexisting conditions are protected? Since they could have died, will they repent of efforts to take money from Medicaid?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the serious moral questions that have to be answered,\u201d Barber said. On the contrary: The most serious raised by Barber\u2019s cold-blooded politicization of grief is whether the reverend is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2+Timothy+3%3A1-5&#038;version=KJV\">without natural affection<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"William Barber Prays For Steve Scalise, Asks GOP Not To \u2018Prey\u2019 On Poor | AM Joy | MSNBC\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGQEdDySUVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>No one who misses as many fundamental, historical, and universal doctrines of the Bible as Barber does has any businesses preaching on the finer points of applied public morality. Perhaps he should heed the words of the Bible, \u201cThough by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God\u2019s Word all over again\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Hebrews+5%3A8-14&#038;version=NIV\">Hebrews 5:12<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A left-wing activist and minister has told Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) that refusing to abolish the filibuster is a \u201cmoral contradiction\u201d to the senator\u2019s Christian faith, claiming that the filibuster &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280511,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1220016808.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The Filibuster Is Sinful\u2019: Left-Wing Minister Questions Joe Manchin\u2019s Faith","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1220016808.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The Filibuster Is Sinful\u2019: Left-Wing Minister Questions Joe Manchin\u2019s Faith","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}