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Pete Buttigieg Calls Republicans Hypocritical for Supporting Trump’s Border Policies
Mayor Pete Buttigieg used a discussion about the border to accuse Republicans of religious hypocrisy during Thursday night’s Democratic debate. During the second night of Democratic debates, moderators asked how many of the candidates on stage would make illegal border crossings a civil rather than criminal offense. Every candidate on the stage said they would.
Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, jumped on the question to take a shot at Republicans over recent reports that the Trump administration continues to separate children from their families and houses them in squalid conditions. Without acknowledging that President Trump has said that he is concerned about the situation at the border and that Vice President Pence called the situation “totally unacceptable” and called on Congress to provide more resources for border security, Buttigieg attacked Republicans as hypocritical over the issue.
Buttigieg said, “The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion,” and then acknowledged that Democrats don’t talk about religion as much because of their commitment to the separation of church and state. Then, he continued his line of attack on Republicans, saying “We should call hypocrisy, and for a party that associates itself with Christianity to say it is okay to suggest that God would smile on the division of families…
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DCLM Daily Manna 30 June 2019 – Unity That Counts
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‘We’re gonna take this to church’ Stormzy performs Blinded By Your Grace at Glastonbury
In Stormzy’s set on the Pyramid stage on Friday night he challenged those watching to think about racial inequality, using a sample of a David Lammy MP speech from the House of Commons about discrimination in the justice system, raising the problem of knife crime and racial prejudice in ballet.
The rapper won Best Grime Act in 2014 and 2015 at the MOBO awards and his debut album Gang Signs and Prayer was the first grime album to reach number one in the UK.
In his first rendition of Blinded By Your Grace, he introduced it by saying: “This is what it sounds like when Glastonbury meets God…this is a God tune. This is everything.”
He then walked off as Chris Martin, the singer from Coldplay came on to play keyboard, shortly joined on the stool by Stormzy for a spotlit duet where they sang:
“I’m blinded by your grace
Every night, every day
And I was lost, yeah
But ever since you found me
I’m blinded by your grace
Through the darkness you came
And I’ll be alright
With you by my side”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I'm a 58 year old Mum who is overcome and so thankful that <a href="https://twitter.com/stormzy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stormzy</a> brought it to church last night. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GlaSTORMbury?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GlaSTORMbury</a> totally fantastic that a black rapper made black history, British...
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