Democrats and the media insist that religion and government must be kept strictly separate — at least when faith challenges their political agenda. That principle disappears the moment liberal Episcopal and Catholic leaders from deep-blue cities and states are useful as political validators.
In this clip, Rachel Maddow uses religious leaders from deep-blue cities to advance a political narrative portraying Donald Trump as a tyrant. She elevates a Catholic archbishop who claims it is morally acceptable for U.S. service members to disobey orders from the president, while also highlighting clergy being told to prepare for martyrdom under the current government — a claim so detached from reality that it borders on theatrical fear-mongering. Maddow then points to Catholic leadership from Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Newark — all deep-blue cities — and explicitly frames these figures as attempting to “bring their moral force to bear” against the president and the government he commands. The result is a media narrative that uses religion to legitimize political resistance and reframe political disagreement as a moral crisis rather than a policy debate.
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Archbishop Broglio told the BBC, “It would be very difficult for a soldier or marine or a sailor by himself to disobey an order such as that. But strictly speaking, he or she would be within the realm of their own conscience. It would be morally acceptable to disobey that order.”
So yesterday and one day, we have the Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire explaining that his clergy need to have their wills written and their affairs in order because they may be called to stand up against tyranny in the United States right now, to the point of dangerousness, to the point where their lives may be at risk, to the point where he is talking about martyrdom in his church.
The same day, the Catholic archbishop for the U.S. armed services says it would be morally acceptable for U.S. service members to refuse orders from this president to invade a country that he is currently threatening, all in one day.
Then today, the very next day, the three highest-ranking Catholic clerics in the United States — cardinals who oversee Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Newark — all released a joint statement lambasting the foreign policy adventurism of the U.S. government right now, saying it calls into question the moral role of our country.
And, you know, that’s a lot all at once.
Whether or not you’re a religious person, even if you are a religious person, whether or not these developments are from your faith tradition, I think it’s safe to say there’s something going on when big mainline, mainstream religious leaders of very large, very influential religious denominations in the United States start talking in terms this stark, start literally talking about martyrdom, start trying to bring their moral force to bear against the behavior and actions of the U.S. president and the U.S. government that he commands.
Tonight here on the show, we’re going to speak live with Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago. He is going to be here live in just a minute.
This segment reveals how quickly the media abandons “separation of church and state” when religion can be used to attack political opponents.
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