Ocasio-Cortez would have more credibility on these issues if she actually followed the tenets of the church to which she claims to belong, the Roman Catholic Church. If "there is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people ... turning someone away from a hospital [or] rejecting a child from a family," then why does AOC staunchly support abortion, which denies unborn children medical care, hospital visits, and a family? If she believes that "all people are holy and all people are sacred," why does she support the killing of any person in the womb?
AOC insisted that Republicans would reject Jesus as a "radical," but she twisted Jesus's teachings to make them political. Jesus was actually far from a radical when it comes to politics — He angered His Jewish contemporaries by refusing to take up arms against the Roman authorities, and He insisted that His followers should pay taxes, even though the Romans were abusing the Jews through tax-farming at the time. Jesus's commands that His disciples love their enemies, welcome the stranger, and care for "the least of these" have to do with private charity, not government attempts to redistribute wealth or force citizens to love one another.
This is not to say Jesus would have been a Republican. Republicans would have been just as frustrated with Jesus's insistence that transformation of the heart, rather than government reform, is the key issue. Hucksters like Jim Bakker are just as wrong to say "Trump is a test (for) whether you're even saved" as liberals are when they use Jesus's temporary exile in Egypt as a political trump card on immigration issues (as AOC has done).
As for religious freedom, Ocasio-Cortez's rhetoric obscures the real issues. Catholic hospitals are not arguing for a right to turn someone away — they are asking for the right to refuse to perform surgical procedures that they believe cause harm to a person. Minton, for instance, wanted to have her healthy uterus removed in pursuit of transgender identity as a man. Yet the Catholic Church considers this kind of elective sterilization to be harmful, the very opposite of "health care." It takes a similar view of the killing of unborn babies.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/aoc-in...eedom-to-white-supremacy-slavery-segregation/
AOC insisted that Republicans would reject Jesus as a "radical," but she twisted Jesus's teachings to make them political. Jesus was actually far from a radical when it comes to politics — He angered His Jewish contemporaries by refusing to take up arms against the Roman authorities, and He insisted that His followers should pay taxes, even though the Romans were abusing the Jews through tax-farming at the time. Jesus's commands that His disciples love their enemies, welcome the stranger, and care for "the least of these" have to do with private charity, not government attempts to redistribute wealth or force citizens to love one another.
This is not to say Jesus would have been a Republican. Republicans would have been just as frustrated with Jesus's insistence that transformation of the heart, rather than government reform, is the key issue. Hucksters like Jim Bakker are just as wrong to say "Trump is a test (for) whether you're even saved" as liberals are when they use Jesus's temporary exile in Egypt as a political trump card on immigration issues (as AOC has done).
As for religious freedom, Ocasio-Cortez's rhetoric obscures the real issues. Catholic hospitals are not arguing for a right to turn someone away — they are asking for the right to refuse to perform surgical procedures that they believe cause harm to a person. Minton, for instance, wanted to have her healthy uterus removed in pursuit of transgender identity as a man. Yet the Catholic Church considers this kind of elective sterilization to be harmful, the very opposite of "health care." It takes a similar view of the killing of unborn babies.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/aoc-in...eedom-to-white-supremacy-slavery-segregation/
