Faith group to target Bachmann on jobs bill
Monday, September 26, 2011 at 7:58 am
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A Christian group says it will target U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann over her opposition to President Obama’s jobs plan.
The group, Spirit of Faith Community, is planning a Wednesday afternoon demonstration at Bachmann’s Woodbury office using the biblical story of loaves and fishes to convince her to support a tax increase on the wealthiest Americans to help create jobs.
“Jesus would support this bill,” said Brandon Nessen, the group’s spokesperson. “Ask the wealthiest to contribute so that ordinary families can get back on two feet again.”
The group will re-enact the biblical story of Jesus Christ using either five or seven loaves of bread and several small fish, depending on the version of the story, to feed thousands of starving people. The story is seen as a lesson to help the less fortunate.
The event is being organized by members of the “religious left,” according to a press release. “A group of church-going progressives will descend on her Woodbury office to ask her to support President Obama’s jobs bill, which would use revenue from taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for infrastructure projects and other bipartisan policies aimed at stimulating job growth,” the group’s statement said. “The group will reenact a version of the biblical story of Loaves and Fishes to demonstrate that Jesus created abundance from apparent scarcity just as Congress could do with the President’s jobs package.”
The Spirit of Truth Faith Community describes itself as “a faith community from the Christian tradition that strives to put love and justice at the center of everything we do. We are a group of people who realized we wanted to live out our values of love and justice, and that we needed a faith community to do it.”
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Comment posted September 26, 2011 @ 2:30 pm
People of Minnesota.
Michelle makes you all look like a bunch of raving lunatic fools. This woman is a serial liar and completely beholden to her corporate sponsors.
Throw her out in 2012 and show the world that you’re not the idiots we currently believe you to be.
A Texan
Comment posted September 26, 2011 @ 2:47 pm
Reply to “A Texan”,
Michelle Bachmann is an embarrassment. Though I am not in her district, I would like to see her voted out of office for the benefit of all.
Rick Perry is equally or even more embarrassing. He is the master of crony capitalism. He is the ultimate example of “All hat and not cattle.” The man has been a pawn of the politically and financially powerful in Texas his entire career. His lack of basic intelligence and integrity is appalling.
Practice what you preach please.
A Minnesotan
Comment posted September 26, 2011 @ 3:31 pm
Changing politics in Texas would be like changing the weather on Mars. People too uninformed and tethered to the right wing Christian Taliban to know they’re voting against their own interests.
Comment posted September 26, 2011 @ 7:53 pm
Of course, anyone who is a Unitarian, a Quaker, or understands that the story of the loaves and fishes does not involve actual Math is not a “Real” Christian anyway…heck, even Jesus woulda changed his tune if he had lived long enough to figger out that he was just encouraging losers to hang out singing Kumbaya instead of getting good jobs in finance!
Oops, I forgot I had my snark on.
Go Brandon & Friends!
Comment posted September 27, 2011 @ 1:20 pm
Well, if it’s good enough for the extreme right to have religious groups getting support and involved, then this group can too – and good for them that they know what to focus on! Yay.
Comment posted September 27, 2011 @ 2:34 pm
The useful Christian idiots are at it again. They deliberately pervert Christ’s message for their own ends. And to Brandon Nessen: you don’t have the foggiest clue in your little socialist brain what Jesus would support, now do you? Put down the crackpipe: Christ came to establish his church, and to talk about what came AFTER LIFE, not what kind of tax policies we ought to embrace. Christianity is personal, charity is personal. You can disagree with Michele Bachmann all you want, but using your religion to justify stealing from some of us is beyond contemptuous and certainly not justified anywhere in the New Testament. Charity is voluntary, taxes are not. Jesus doesn’t give you points for ripping off your neighbors. Man, I’m really tired of stupid Christians who don’t understand their own religion!
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