100 Progressive ‘Christian’ Leaders Sign Letter Denouncing Mass Deportations, Pardoning J6 Prisoners

Staff Writer

Over 100 progressive ne’er do wells lent their names to the statement Returning To Jesus: Practicing Lent In Our Time, lamenting President Trump’s immigration policies, the pardoning of January 6 prisoners, and cuts to foreign aid.

Sponsored by the grandaddy of liberals, Jim Wallis Sojourners, the statement reads in part:

This year we celebrate Lent amidst a growing crisis in America, driven by the political accumulation of wealth, power, and control. This crisis already threatens the rule of law and the checks and balances of our constitutional democracy.

…Our country’s great need for a lawful, humane, and effective immigration system is urgent; but millions of people without needed legal documentation,but who have no criminal records, (the stranger) are now being threatened with mass deportations and are being detained and separated from their families and communities.

And

While thousands of people convicted of violent assault, trespassing, theft, and even seditious conspiracy were pardoned in a blatant act of political corruption, there are millions of Americans (the imprisoned) who remain incarcerated by a broken, unjust, and racialized criminal justice system in this country.

And

The massive cutting of foreign aid to those most in need, and from many faith-based organizations supplying it is a gospel issue for us that we must speak to, despite dishonest, personal, and unprecedented government attacks now coming against faith-based service providers. We must defend lifesaving international aid and humanitarian assistance that prevents hungry people from starving, keeps those in ill health from dying, and defends children and families lives from being destroyed.

Notable signers whom we’ve covered before include:

Dr. Diana Butler Bass, Author and historian
Mr. Tim Whitaker, The New Evangelicals
Pastor Raymond Chang, Asian American Christian Collaborative
Mr. Shane Claiborne, Red Letter Christians
Rev. Adam Hamilton, Author, The Message of Jesus
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, Trinity United Church of Christ
Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, Fuller Theological Seminary
Rev. Jim Wallis, Center on Faith and Justice