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It's very difficult to sit here and listen to arguments in the long history of this country of using scripture and weaponizing and abusing scripture to justify bigotry. White supremacists have done it, those who justified slavery did it, those who fought against integration did it, and we're seeing it today.

And sometimes, especially in this body, I feel as though if Christ himself walked through these doors and said what he said thousands of years ago — that we should love our neighbour and our enemy, that we should welcome the stranger, fight for the least of us, that it is easier for a rich man — it's easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into the kingdom of heaven — he would be maligned as a radical and rejected from these doors.

And I know, and it is part of my faith, that all people are holy and all people are sacred, unconditionally. And that is what makes faith sometimes; that's what prompts us to