RUSSELL MOORE, PRESIDENT OF THE
"ETHICS & RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COMMISSION"
SOUTHERN BAPTIST RUSSELL MOORE DEMANDS VIRGINIA "BLACKFACE " GOVERNOR NORTHAM RESIGN, SAYS IT'S AS BAD AS ABORTION~MOORE HAS NEVER CONDEMNED NORTHAM'S PRO-ABORTION STANCE
SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/02/03/russell-moore-demands-virginia-blackface-governor-northam-resign-says-its-as-bad-as-abortion/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Russell Moore – the president of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission – whose last known political affiliation was the Democratic Party while serving as a staffer for a Democratic legislator, is joining his fellow Democrats in calling for the resignation of Ralph Northam. Northam, a Democrat who won the Virginia governorship from Republican, Ed Gillespie in 2017 (took office on January 13, 2018), is under pressure by his own party to resign his seat after it was discovered that he posed for a ‘racist’ photo while in college, which was posted in his medical school yearbook. The year was 1984. Democrats, as well as some Republicans, have called for Northam’s resignation and include Corey Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren, Julian Castro, and Kamala Harris.
The 35 year-old photo shows Northam in “blackface,” as pictured below.
Russell Moore has not called on Northam to resign for being a pro-abortion Democrat. Russell Moore has not called on Northam to resign for believing in the redistribution of wealth, which violates the 8th Commandment. Rather, Moore is demanding that Northam resign for a bad decision 35 years ago, which was to put on black make-up for a Halloween photo in poor taste.
Taking to Twitter to signal his virtue, as usual, the ‘woke’ Southern Baptist leader demanded Northam resign using the hashtag #NorthamResign.
Moore has repeatedly argued that women who have murdered their children via abortion should not be punished (even if it were criminalized). However, for Moore, wearing blackface appears to be the unforgiveable sin.
Please note that Russell Moore uses classical Marxist terminology in his tweets, reducing the complicated issue of race relations to one of “power dynamics.”
Moore also equivocates, likening abortion to “racial injustice.” Of course, wearing blackface, while insensitive, is not injustice. It may be distasteful. It may be insensitive. But in order for racial insensitivity to be a matter of “justice,” someone would have to demonstrate that they have suffered actual personal harm from the costume. In 35 years since the photo was taken, that doesn’t seem to be the case.
While all Christians should be happy that a Democrat has to leave office, the reason for Moore’s anger and hashtag slacktivism seems overdone, especially compared to Moore’s relative silence on the topic of abortion, which never seems to vex him as terribly as perceived racial insensitivity.
There is zero doubt in anyone’s mind that Russell Moore would not demand the resignation of any politician who had an abortion 35 years ago. Moore’s outrage is selective.
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Russell Moore Joins With Nancy Pelosi to Address Liberal Organization
SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/01/31/russell-moore-joins-with-nancy-pelosi-to-address-liberal-organization/; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Russell Moore speaking alongside Nancy Pelosi really isn’t a stretch of the imagination. Moore, a former Democratic staffer, has done everything in his power to be as fierce a critic of President Trump as the Speaker of the House. From calling a border wall a “Golden Calf” to serving on George Soros’ Evangelical Immigration Table, to demanding an end to the shutdown and for Trump to send more tax-dollars overseas to our enemies, Moore’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) basically serves as a Democratic PAC.
Yesterday, Moore spoke alongside Nancy Pelosi at the same event, hosted by the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), the organization that we wrote about changing its ‘transgender’ and homosexual policy, which now supports an expansion of the law that would give ‘transgender’ and homosexual people extra legal protections the rest of us do not have. The name of that post was ERLC-Backed Group Secretly Supports Expansion of Gay Rights.
The NAE also took part in the event. The NAE is a sister organization of the National Council of Churches, which is affiliated with the World Council of Churches. The NAE is an ecumenist organization, which from its inception was branded as being theologically liberal. Russell Moore fits in with the NAE like a duck takes to water and a pig rolls in mud. These are his people.
The CCCU hosted event yesterday included both Nancy Pelosi and her Democrat acolyte, Russell Moore, as you can see from the screenshot above, taken from the NAE Facebook page.
According to Religion News Service, Pelosi used the opportunity to speak about a topic that both she and Russell Moore are in complete agreement upon…illegal immigration.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of Christian educators gathering in the nation’s capital this week that she intends to uphold her responsibility to “act upon our beliefs in the dignity and worth of every person.”Those people include refugees seeking to cross our borders…
Moore, who helps to run the Soros-funded EIT, would no doubt have little problem with Pelosi’s statements to the pro-gray NAE or CCCU or her ambitious agenda to destroy America’s sovereign borders.
