Heresy. Rev. Barber smacks down Jesus-quoting GOP Rep. who claims poor dont want health care

POSTED BY: UMBERTO DEMOS MARCH 5, 2017

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“Heresy.” Rev. Barber smacks down Jesus-quoting GOP Rep. who claims poor “don’t want health care”



Perhaps in the ultimate show of desperation, Rep. Robert Marshall (R-KA) has turned to Jesus to try to justify Republican plans to take health care away from millions of people. Rev. William Barber is having none of it.

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MSNBCs Joy Reid gave Rev. William Barber, the preacher behind the Moral Mondays movement, the opportunity to respond:

REID: There is a congressman, Representative Robert Marshall of Kansas, who has said in terms of the Medicaid expansion, he said just like Jesus said, the poor will always be with us, a group of people who just dont want health care and arent going to take care of themselves. Sir, as a pastor, I feel I have to ask you your take on his take on Jesus. BARBER: Well, that is a form of heresy. It is a misquoting of Scripture. It is what the so-called religious evangelicals put out there. They actually misquote that Scripture. When Jesus was quoting that as a good Hebrew, and a good Jewish person. Whenever they quoted part of scripture, they meant the whole Scripture. If you go back to Deuteronomy, that Scripture says because the poor will be with you, then you should care for the poor. You should care for the alien. And it was talking to the nation. Jesus, if he did anything, provided free health care, Joy. Everywhere he went, he set up free health clinics.

Just last month, the Kansas House of Representatives voted by a wide margin to expand Medicaid in that state. Two hundred thousand Kansans stand to gain health insurance if it goes through. It faces an uphill battle with Sam Brownback as Governor, but the moral lines have been drawn.

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