Our elected representatives recently made their rich donors richer at the expense of the majority of their constituents. They approved big tax cuts for billionaires at the same time cutting potentially life-saving food and health care for the poorest of the poor.
Jesus condemned those who, like our representatives, “bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.” (Matt. 23:4.) Jesus said that what we do “unto one of the least” we do to him, and what we don’t do for the stranger, the sick, the hungry, the prisoner, and the homeless, we don’t do to him. (Matt. 25:40, 44-45.) As Jesus said, “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
The United States can no longer call itself a Christian nation, if it ever could.
Evangelicals often raise the question, “Are Mormons Christian?” We now know that, as far as Utah’s congressional delegation is concerned, the answer is, “Not those Mormons.”
Paul Simmons, Murray
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