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LetMyPeopleVote

(153,851 posts)
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 01:00 AM Mar 2022

Tennessee pastors express 'embarrassment' towards Sen. Blackburn's SCOTUS nominee remarks

Marsha Blackburn is an embarrassment




— Tennessee pastors expressed their "embarrassment" and "frustration" towards Tennessee's state Senior Senator Marsha Blackburn for her role on the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee after the second day of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Pastors part of the Southern Christian Coalition, a nonpartisan grassroots, ecumenical organization felt that Sen. Blackburn did not demonstrate professionalism by focusing on political talking points.

“While most Senators in the Judiciary Committee focused on the qualifications and experience of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, our Senator Marsha Blackburn’s line of questioning was inappropriate and irrelevant, and as a Christian, pastor, and Tennessean, I was embarrassed by her public behavior,” said Rev. Brandon Berg, Pastor of First United Church in Bristol, TN.

Senator Blackburn tossed away an opportunity to behave professionally in favor of currying votes from her political base. Her vocabulary of fear-mongering is in stark contrast to the faith she claims in a Savior who reminds us repeatedly, ‘do not fear,’ and ‘the first shall be last, and the last shall be first,’ while on the other hand, Judge Jackson shows the ability to live out the believer’s call to ‘do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God,’ as all Christians should strive to live out.

Sen. Blackburn said the nominee has taken progressive postions in her writings and speeches and Blackburn is determined to stand up for parents who don’t want progressivism in schools.
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Tennessee pastors express 'embarrassment' towards Sen. Blackburn's SCOTUS nominee remarks (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 OP
Good elleng Mar 2022 #1
It's hard to demonstrate professionalism when you lack basic intellect. ❤ littlemissmartypants Mar 2022 #2
Oh, brother. ShazzieB Mar 2022 #3
Who has the clip of the journalist following her, with her silence to his questions mahina Mar 2022 #4
Here's the link to that thread a few days back: intheflow Mar 2022 #6
Thank you! mahina Mar 2022 #8
It embarrasses me that any reTHUG Fascist Treasonous Insurrectionist is still free to abqtommy Mar 2022 #5
Prominent Tennessee pastors blast Trumper Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #7

ShazzieB

(18,444 posts)
3. Oh, brother.
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 03:22 AM
Mar 2022
Sen. Blackburn said the nominee has taken progressive postions in her writings and speeches and Blackburn is determined to stand up for parents who don’t want progressivism in schools.


So I guess Blackburn must not have gotten the memo about what job KBJ has been nominated for and what its parameters are.

Psst, Marsha: that job is Supreme Court justice, not school teacher, principal, or school board member.

mahina

(18,840 posts)
4. Who has the clip of the journalist following her, with her silence to his questions
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 03:31 AM
Mar 2022

About big Russian campaign money? It was just a day or so ago.

intheflow

(28,840 posts)
6. Here's the link to that thread a few days back:
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 03:09 PM
Mar 2022

Last edited Thu Mar 24, 2022, 10:16 PM - Edit history (1)

https://democraticunderground.com/100216509799

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abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
5. It embarrasses me that any reTHUG Fascist Treasonous Insurrectionist is still free to
Thu Mar 24, 2022, 06:00 AM
Mar 2022

walk the streets or sit in the halls of government pretending that they have something
positive to add to our society. Lock them all up!

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