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How about that photo op with trump and the bible. The guy is religious and should be admired!

Sarcasm, right?

A lot of right wing radicals hide behind the Bible. This was no different.

It ok everyone who got gassed was a democrat. They need to know their place.

I truly hope you are being sarcastic..

Well most Jews are Democrats. Oh, you were talking about a different time and a different gas. My bad.

After seeing that photo, I was amazed that he didn't burst into flames.

Are you guys talking about the Democrat burned church or the John Paul II shrine?

Trump was pictured at both.

I would like you to explain how dispersing peaceful protestors to carry out a photo op with using the Bible as a prop is a godly act.

He's only deflecting that Trump just stepped on the Constitutional right of peaceful protest to do a photo op.

But the photo goes together with the Executive Order on Religious Freedom Trump signed today.

“This executive order fully integrates the president’s vision – a vigorous defense of international religious freedom rights for all – into key aspects of United States foreign policy,” the official said. “Yet again, President Trump is taking a decisive action to keep his promise to people of faith around the world.”

In case you missed it, people still have constitutional right to peaceful protest. Never let the constitution get in the way of your blind loyalty.

Both photo-ops!

It sounds like Trump was infringing on her religious freedom.

They have that right, of course.

But you never mention while there were reports that tear gas was used, U.S. Park Police said they only used smoke canisters. It is unclear whether other law enforcement agencies used tear gas or other irritants on the crowd.

U.S. Park Police said that water bottles were thrown at their officers near Lafayette Park, shortly before the president visited nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church.
https://wtop.com/dc/2020/06/dc-george-floyd-protests-day-4/

You sip the koolaid of the MSM but the locals here know the truth.

Institutional racism pushes a narrative that is untrue (see the hack job initial report on what Floyd died from).

There’s plenty of video evidence which shows what happened.

But you probably won’t look as you’re just an oppressed white male posting on an Internet forum.

Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John’s church near White House

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Early Monday evening (June 1), President Donald Trump stood before the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Washington and held aloft a Bible for cameras.

The photo opportunity had an eerie quality: Trump said relatively little, positioned stoically in front of the boarded-up church, which had been damaged the day before in a fire during protests sparked by the death of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis.

The church appeared to be completely abandoned.

It was, in fact, abandoned, but not by choice: Less than an hour before Trump’s arrival, armored police used tear gas to clear hundreds of peaceful demonstrators from Lafayette Square park, which is across the street from the church.

Authorities also expelled at least one Episcopal priest and a seminarian from the church’s patio.

RELATED: Click here for complete coverage of the George Floyd protests on RNS

“They turned holy ground into a battleground,” said the Rev. Gini Gerbasi.

Gerbasi, who serves as rector at a different St. John’s Episcopal Church, in nearby Georgetown, arrived at St. John’s Lafayette earlier that day with what she said were at least 20 other priests and a group of laypeople. They were organized by the Episcopal Diocese of Washington to serve as a “peaceful presence in support of protesters.”

The volunteers and clergy offered water, snacks and hand sanitizer to demonstrators who were gathered in Lafayette Park across the street — which sits directly in front of the White House — to denounce racism and police brutality after the death of Floyd.

But sometime after 6 in the evening, when volunteers were packing up supplies, Gerbasi said police suddenly began to expel demonstrators from the park — before the 7 p.m. curfew announced for Washington residents earlier in the day.

“I was suddenly coughing from the tear gas,” she said. “We heard those explosions and people would drop to the ground because you weren’t sure what it was.”

The Rev. Glenna J. Huber, rector of the Church of the Epiphany, another downtown Washington church, was at St. John’s but left as the National Guard arrived. She said she watched as police rushed into the area she had just fled. Concerned, the priest sent a frantic email to clergy at the church urging them to be careful.

Back at St. John’s, Gerbasi said she was dressed in clerical garb and standing on church grounds as police approached.

“I’m there in my little pink sweater in my collar, my gray hair up in a ponytail, my reading glasses on, and my seminarian who was with me — she got tear gas in her eyes,” she said.

Gerbasi said that as she and the seminarian watched, police began to expel people from the church patio.

“The police in their riot gear with their black shields and the whole bit start pushing on to the patio of St. John’s Lafayette Square,” she said, adding that people around her began crying out in pain, saying they had been shot with nonlethal projectiles.

Gerbasi and others eventually fled the scene, leaving emergency medical supplies behind. By the time she reached K Street several blocks away and checked her phone, Trump was already in front of the church holding a Bible.

“That’s what it was for: to clear that patio so that man could stand in front of that building with a Bible,” said Gerbasi.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Trump aides reportedly told a Bloomberg News reporter that officials had planned to expand the perimeter around White House Monday afternoon, irrespective of Trump’s visit to the church — although those plans do not appear to have been shared with clergy working in front of the church.

The official White House Twitter account did tweet a video Monday evening celebrating Trump’s visit to the church, complete with footage of Trump walking to the church set to dramatic music.

Episcopal Church leaders were quick to condemn the incident.

The Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, the bishop of Washington who helped organize the clergy presence at the church, said Trump’s arrival at St. John’s happened without warning and left her “outraged.”

“The symbolism of him holding a Bible … as a prop and standing in front of our church as a backdrop when everything that he has said is antithetical to the teachings of our traditions and what we stand for as a church — I was horrified,” she told Religion News Service.

“He didn’t come to pray. He didn’t come to lament the death of George Floyd. He didn’t come to address the deep wounds that are being expressed through peaceful protest by the thousands upon thousands. He didn’t try to bring calm to situations that are exploding with pain.”

The Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, also criticized the move, accusing the president of using “a church building and the Holy Bible for partisan political purposes.”

“This was done in a time of deep hurt and pain in our country, and his action did nothing to help us or to heal us,” Curry said in a statement.

“We need our President, and all who hold office, to be moral leaders who help us to be a people and nation living these values. For the sake of George Floyd, for all who have wrongly suffered, and for the sake of us all, we need leaders to help us to be ‘one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all.’”

St. John’s has long been tied to the presidency. Every sitting president has attended the church at least once since its founding in 1816, earning it the nickname “Church of the Presidents.” The church’s then-rector, the Rev. Luis Leon, prayed at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, and the church hosted a service on the morning of Trump’s inauguration as well.

The church, like many Episcopal congregations, is known for harboring a liberal bent: It has hired LGBTQ clergy and advocated for same-sex marriage. Its parent denomination, the Episcopal Church, has been critical of Trump: Curry participated in a 2018 protest near the White House in which he and other liberal-leaning clergy blasted Trump’s campaign slogan “America First” as “a theological heresy.”

St. John’s was also damaged during the demonstrations over the weekend when it was defaced with graffiti and suffered a small fire in its basement that was quickly extinguished.

Asked what she would tell Trump if given the chance, Gerbasi said: “You want to be living your life by the words in that book (the Bible), not toting it around as a photo opportunity.”

The priest later posted about her experience on Facebook, concluding her account with the defiant decree “I am now a force to be reckoned with.”


https://religionnews.com/2020/06/02/ahea...nXHrZyRO-u4ob5s

-Robert Hendrickson, Rector, Saint Philip's in the Hills Episcopal Church.


Good people of character see this man for exactly who he is.
Your mileage may vary.

Trump activity aside, the dogmatic irony of this quote is absolutely hilarious.

You'll either have to explain yourself or give me a definition of 'dogmatic irony,' because I'm not understanding you at all.

There is no dogmatic irony in this, you are just on the cool aid. It will start clearing your system in late January 2021.

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Reverend says she was among peaceful protesters tear-gassed so Trump could "hold a Bible and look Christian"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/reverend-pe...b_GqkyQ0dWXxXnA

j/c

And the lies continue...….

Trump claims he went to bunker for 'inspection' amid violent protests

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/politics/donald-trump-bunker/index.html?

My God! Look at the crowd size in pic #1.
Looks like Inauguration Day.

He needed some privacy to inspect that load in his pants.

j/c

Religious Leaders Say They Were Tear-Gassed For Trump’s Church Photo-Op

Police drove faith leaders off the property of St. John’s Church to make room for the president, according to Rev. Gini Gerbasi.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/clergy-st...7IAsw_Oxnq4p2kI

When President Trump holds a Bible, it's an outrageous "photo op." But when pro-choice Nancy Pelosi does it...well, that's a moving, inspirational, religious experience. #LeftistLogic

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/...LhuHu1hh-LNzpR0

I'll take Whataboutisms for 100, Alex!

Hey fish, if you want to talk about Nancy go start a new thread!

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Well when Nancy Pelosi gases religious leaders nobody says anything about that!

Trump 2020 / MAWA / Make America White Again

How many people were driven back and tear gassed in order to have that photo op? How many horses did they use? How many of the clergy suffered for it?

Democrat Burned Church? That's kind of a dumb remark! Anyway, what trump had done (probably by Barr) was to have peaceful protestors was gassed and shot at with Rubber Bullets just so he could have a photo op..

If that doesn't make him biggest arse, nothing does.. What a freakin jerk,,, Turn weapons on non violent protestors

Our president ordered an attack on law abiding citizens.

Think about that

Our president ordered an attack on law abiding citizens.


Trump 2020 / MAWA / Make America White Again

And we've been hearing excuses for it ever since.

Trump Jung Kim

Trump 2020 WHA WHA WHA; Do nothing, cry about everything and blame everyone else.

That is about everything, in a nut shell.

Eh, you have been doing this nonstop.

Why are you anointing Trump with godly powers? He is not Jesus and he isnt the Pope.
He is not a religious figure, so its kind of moronic for you talk like he represents any of Christianity or people's religious views. Please buy a clue.