about evangelicals, we keep hearing from people who claim to be evangelical but are more extreme religionists. i heard them say stay out of his personal business and talk about the issues. well, let s talk about the issues. there are over 900,000 people who are poor in alabama. nothing that roy moore has done in his candidacy has been to help the poor. he actually supports a tax reform that will hurt the poor. let s talk about his record. he s been wrong on one of the segregation laws on the books. he has supported programs that would hurt children, that would take health care from families. he s been on the wrong side of treating immigrants proper and treating lgbt community proper. his positions don t line up with true orthodox evangelicalism. we have to challenge that. your audience will see white ministers standing with back ministers, people who are
who stood up for the least of these. who stood against power, who stood against those who hurt children. and they were persecuted for that, as was jesus. if you step back and look at alabama, alabama denied medicaid expansion. alabama is the 12th lowest per pupil spending in education. it is one of the poorest states in the union. it rates 47th in income. has the sixth highest child poverty. and most of these are white. nothing roy moore has ever done has sought to deal with those issues. instead, what has he done? he has supported segregation laws. he supported the lies about birtherism. he violated his oath of office. and now, joy, he wants to be given the power to go to the senate so he can block people from having health care. that s not christian. so that he can write laws against muslims, gay people, and work on a tax reform that will hurt the poor and the working poor.
this is not christianity. an extreme form of religionism. that text actually refers to the prophets who stood up for poor, who stood up for the least of these. who stood against power, who stood against those who hurt children. and they were percent cuted for that, as was jesus. if you step back and look at alabama, alabama denied medicaid expansion. alabama is the 12th lowest per pupil spending in education. it is one of the poorest states in the union. it rates 47th in income. has the sixth highest child poverty. and most of these are white. nothing roy moore has ever done has sought to deal with those issues. instead, what has he done? he has supported segregation laws. he supported the lies about birtherism. he violated his oath of office. and now, joy, he wants to be given the power to go to the senate so he can block people from having health care. that s not christian. so that he can write laws against muslims, gay people, and work on a tax reform that will hurt the poor and the
they are valid. moore, himself, he got involved in trying to keep the state from over turning segregation laws. it s the alabama christian coalition. just because you use the name did you want make you christian. there are scriptures that say people can say lord, lord but their hearts are far from him. you have to understand the distinct connection between e n evangelicalism and how people can get this twisted in their moral aspects and perspectives that s so contrary to orthodox christianity and orthodox evangelicalism as it s laid out in scripture. you have judge moore s
and it didn t become segregated by accident. it was designed that way. a century of housing policy from segregation laws to the subprime mortgage crisis has divided baltimore along racial lines and the effects of those policies can still be felt in the city s african-american communities today. it is in that context that we examined the unrest of april 2015 and the unrest that fell on the city nearly half a century earlier in 1968. former congressman questionsi mfume witnessed it firsthand. there was a lot of anger as there was in a lot of american cities in the 1960s. it was the period of the black power movement. people were very much divided over the war in vietnam. jack kennedy had been assassinated earlier that decade. and then his brother. and then dr. martin luther king. there was a lot of strife between people who thought that they had the right to impose their will on others and others