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Presiding Bishop of the ELCA is Confused In More Ways Than One

3/31/2019

ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton tweeted:

I am trying to understand the president’s decision to cut aid to Guatemala El Salvador Honduras. The rich and the governments of these countries will not bear the brunt, the poor who are leaving to seek asylum will.
— Bishop Eaton (@ELCABishopEaton) March 31, 2019

So the poor that are LEAVING Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras seeking asylum in the United States will be hurt by President Trump's decision to cut aid to those countries?

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ELCA Pastor Says 'ICE Has Become a Personal Army For Nationalism'

2/16/2019

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Rev. Lenny Duncan is a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). You may remember reading about Rev. Duncan elsewhere on Exposing the ELCA. (See here)

Rev. Duncan made some radical claims on Twitter a couple months ago calling ICE a "personal army for nationalism" and saying "the border has become the landscape for the existential threat to whiteness."

ICE has become a personal army for nationalism in the US and the border has become the landscape for the existential threat to whiteness. The death pangs of white supremacy in this country is a hopeful but also extremely dangerous time. It’s like being locked in a small room
— Rev. Lenny Duncan (@lennyaduncan) December 15, 2018

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ELCA Pastor John Sipf's Views

2/11/2019

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The following is a response by ELCA pastor John Sipf of Peoria, Illinois, to my tweet replying to another ELCA pastor. We were discussing this blog about an ELCA pastor giving the camera the finger and his rant against America.

Oh, Danny boy... unlike *ahem* "some" not everyone masterbates to their hatred of the ELCA.
— John Sipf (@Pr_JT_Sipf) December 19, 2018

ELCA pastor John Sipf regularly tweets and retweets about white people, racism, politics, Donald Trump, refugees and illegal immigrants, transgenders, abortion, etc. Below are a few examples of his activity on Twitter.

Jesus killed by Pilate and the centurions

Children killed by Trump and ICE.

America, we are Rome and Babylon.

What're we gonna do about it? https://t.co/jD5m7Ifpvm
— John Sipf (@Pr_JT_Sipf) December 25, 2018

Same https://t.co/OmSkcwrbHT
— John Sipf - He/Him/His (@Pr_JT_Sipf) February 7, 2019

We killed her... Our government killed her... Our silence killed her... https://t.co/pOmI4ljfSp
— John Sipf (@Pr_JT_Sipf) December 14, 2018

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ELCA Church Gives Sanctuary

11/18/2018

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See the ELCA church's tweet below. It doesn't say what the referred to family needs sanctuary from, but you all probably have a good guess. Two ELCA church's are involved.

A fellow ELCA church has been providing sanctuary to Ms. Vargas and her family. Consider attending this event to help raise funds to provide for this family. https://t.co/vkx9R9UjXw
— Trinity Lutheran (@TLC_Columbus) September 23, 2018

The tweeted link says "Miriam Vargas entered sanctuary on June 27, 2018 at First English Lutheran Church."

The fundraising event was hosted by the Columbus Sanctuary Collective. Here is what that group's Facebook page looks like.

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ELCA Bishop Writes of 'White Nationalist Anti-Immigration folks'

10/26/2018

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Bishop Michael Rinehart of the ELCA's Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod often spouts his political and social justice opinions online. Yesterday he wrote about the migrant caravan heading to the United States saying, "There are no terrorists in the caravan,.." Of course he has no way to know this.

The bishop continues, "...though the white nationalist anti-immigration folks want you to think so."

This is the state of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

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Bishop on Immigrants

10/14/2018

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Jim Hazelwood, the ELCA's New England Synod Bishop, presents a skewed view of Scripture and is manipulating it to try and fit it into the refugee situation happening in the United States.

For the last three days I’ve been posting Bible verses to show that this Book has a 1,000 year call on the side of the immigrant, the outcast & the orphan. And that those who use sacred texts to justify their views to the contrary are WRONG!
— Jim Hazelwood (@bishophazelwood) June 21, 2018

The Bible was written by a people who were on the receiving end of opprsession, and dominance. If you read it without that awareness, you miss, oh say, about 98% of its message.
— Jim Hazelwood (@bishophazelwood) July 12, 2018

If we are going to quote the Bible on a policy issue, how about opening up the WHOLE book instead of just the one verse that justifies your own thinking.
— Jim Hazelwood (@bishophazelwood) June 18, 2018

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