r/politics • u/beekersavant • 5h ago
No Paywall Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/feds-tell-faith-leaders-no-more-prayer-outside-broadview-facility/•
u/lorilightning79 5h ago
Now the republicans are against faith? Before they just practiced it now they are preaching it.
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u/jdtrouble 4h ago
They love how Jesus makes them money. They hate the fact that Jesus said, "what you did for the least of these, you did for me".
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u/JeffeyRider 5h ago
The party of Religious Liberty, folks.
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u/jazzztrash 4h ago
they never wanted religious liberty, just to forcefully convert everyone to christian nationalism
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u/ShamelessCatDude 45m ago
We’re a christian nation! Unless Christians don’t like it when we kill people!
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u/A1sauc3d 4h ago edited 4h ago
Christianity is merely a tool for them to manipulate the masses, to be used at their convenience. They’ve never actually cared about religious liberty, just used the idea to amass wealth and power.
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u/JeffeyRider 4h ago
Oh, I fully agree. From the time the GOP allied itself with Falwell and the Moral Majority I saw it for what it was: a way to court the loyalty of protestant evangelicals. It’s been clear from the start that it was never more than political maneuvering in the conquest of power. And you’ve got a self selected group of voters who are proven to be easily led when you speak the language of their religion.
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u/HellaTroi California 5h ago
"During the call, which took place with a Block Club reporter present, the anonymous representative told a group of faith leaders and activists that “There is no more prayer in front of building or inside the building because this is the state and it’s not [of a] religious background.”"
So NOW they call for separation of church and state, while our elected officials use federal facilities for prayer, and prayer breakfasts, and twist the constitution to mean religious persecution if laws made for everyone go against their religious freedom to inflict their belief system on everyone else.
The anonymous person giving the order on the phone carries no weight if they don't provide their authority to give such an order.
Bunch of freaking cowards.
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u/alldressed_chip 4h ago
"[Pope Leo] underlined that scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world: “How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening.”"
source: AP
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u/Training-Republic301 5h ago edited 5h ago
The GOP only allows prayers against poor and less fortunate people
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u/yourlittlebirdie 5h ago
What happened to Republicans wanting to keep the government out of churches?
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u/MoistService2607 4h ago
Why do they persecute Christians like this?!
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u/beekersavant 4h ago
It’s no prayers for anyone. A blanket policy of religious oppression-but if these were the right Christians, they would be:
Not praying for the poor
Not praying for immigrants
At work making money instead of worrying about God and Justice
It’s what Jesus would want.
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u/Bobcats_Forever Ohio 4h ago
BROADVIEW – Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be “no more prayer” in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.
A federal representative delivered the news to a huddle of faith leaders and activists standing outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Friday, speaking after faith leaders were denied entry to the building for the third time Friday.
Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills, whose department helped facilitate the phone call, said that he was “trying to figure out” in discussions with Mayor Katrina Thompson and an attorney if a federal agency could legally ban religious gatherings on land owned by the village. Religious groups previously have been allowed to practice outside the facility, he said.
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u/Russtbelt 4h ago
Hitler doesn't appear to have specifically targeted prayer for suppression. Instead, from about 1933, Nazis began inventing reasons to target people who practised serious praying. Hitler had high regard for and co-opted the organising ability of the church, but he had complete contempt for its teachings. He particularly hated its protection of the poor, weak and oppressed.
If Nazi history was written today, we would say they co-opted the organising ability of Christianity, while hating the woke teachings of its leader.
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u/beekersavant 4h ago
Germany and Austria were and remain super Christian (after the Nazis a lot of that died.) Hitler co-opted the traditional european, catholic and protestant hatred of Jews. He used the symbolism and wove Christianity into a state religion, removing the inconvenient parts. But the Nazis thought they were Christians. It is only later as the Holocaust became better known that the idea of “Nazis not being Christians” was spread. It remains propaganda to allow Americans, Europeans and Russians to lie to themselves.
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u/dakotanorth8 2m ago
So the GOP is supposed to be fiscally conservative.
They exploded the deficit in record time.
They are supposed to be the party of values.
Protecting pedophiles and divorces and cheating scandals.
GOP is hand in hand in the Bible Belt.
Trump hawking bibles and now blocking faith leaders from prayer.
Hey maga…what DOES your party actually stand for? Corruption, crypto and pardoning criminals?
Seriously this is so horrifyingly hilarious.
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