Carolina QuotesWhere we see churches who say that the moral issue is hate, disliking gay people, standing against a woman’s right to choose, standing up for guns and tax cuts for the wealthy and building a wall to block people from this country, not only are they wrong – because there are more than 2,000 Scriptures in the Bible that speak to how we should treat the poor, the stranger and the least of these...
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As quoted in https://news.streetroots.org/2019/11/08/william-j-barber-ii-calls-moral-america William J. Barber II calls for a moral America by Christen McCurdy, 8 November 2019, Street Roots News.
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“Where we see churches who say that the moral issue is hate, …” William Barber II. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-4CC311D6E7. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/4cc311d6e7
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