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Originally Posted by awareness

From healthcare to tax and immigration, Rev William Barber and the Poor People’s Campaign are driven by faith to focus on the disadvantaged

As one group of faith leaders celebrates the fruits of a decades-long alliance with the Republican party, another is mounting a multi-faith challenge to the dominance of the Christian right, in an attempt to recapture the moral agenda.

“There is no religious left and religious right,” Barber, a pastor and political leader in North Carolina, told the Guardian. “There is only a moral center. And the scripture is very clear about where you have to be to be in the moral center – you have to be on the side of the poor, the working, the sick, the immigrant.”

Barber, a co-chair of the campaign, says some conservative faith leaders have “cynically” interpreted the Bible’s teachings to demonize homosexuality, abortion, scientific facts and other religions. They are guilty, he says, of “theological malpractice” and “modern-day heresy”.

So he firstly defines the moral center as taking the side of "the poor, the working, the sick, the immigrant."

We all would agree with that.

Then he pulls a bait'n'switch, condemning others as guilty for opposing homosexuality, abortion, scientific facts, other religions.

What kind of Bible is he reading? His own imagination? Using that he now condemns them as heretics performing theological malpractice.

The Guardian writer here is behaving just like Putin, whose goal is to drive wedges. He cares little for the Bible, and he is really not choosing sides, but rather pitting both sides against each other. Nearly no one recognizes this.