"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step," Rowe wrote.

"Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government."

Rowe stressed that while Episcopal Migration Ministries will seek to "wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September," the denomination will continue to support immigrants and refugees in other ways, such as offering aid to refugees who have already been resettled.

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"What's, 'moral reasons' mean? They don't like their cut? I have ALL the cards!". - Don Old Drumpf

They could be held responsible for producing Herr Musk... that would be fun.

"The stated reasons for [Trump's actions] are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation," read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest.

"As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims."

In addition to ties with Tutu, the Episcopal Church has a long history of advocating against apartheid in South Africa. It first began altering its financial holdings in the region in 1966, and by the mid-1980s, the church voted to divest from companies doing business in South Africa."

much more at the thread link

"Rowe noted his announcement comes as the Trump administration has otherwise all but frozen the refugee program, with Afrikaners among the few " and possibly only " people granted entry as refugees since January.

Shortly after he was sworn in, Trump signed an executive order that essentially halted the refugee program and stopped payments to organizations that assist with refugee resettlement " including, according to one group, payments for work already performed."

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"Trump freeze on resettlement funding leaves new refugees scrambling to adjust in U.S.

That change has left refugees " including Christians fleeing religious persecution " without a clear path forward and has forced the 10 refugee resettlement groups, seven of which are faith based, to lay off scores of workers while still trying to support refugees who had recently arrived.

Four of the faith groups have since filed two separate lawsuits, one of which recently resulted in a ruling that should have restarted the program. However, refugee groups have accused the government of "delaying compliance" with the court order."

- apartheid is over.

#9

Not a white guy in Mom's Basement. In a straight jacket.

- because there is no equality doesn't mean there is apartheid.

"The literature shows that since the end of apartheid racial inequality has declined somewhat, but increases in inequality within race have more than offset this. Despite momentous political change and formal legal equality, economic equality remains elusive for most South Africans."

#17

Racist much? Or more the misogynistic jingoist Chauvinist type?

Your racist gibberish is ignorant and marked Offensive. Always has been.

- literal, undeniable, and open racial oppression

Read the quote in #3 as many times as it takes you to grok it. Odds are that's at least a double digit sum.

But hey, racist sockpuppets are cowards and fools to start with, so nothing new here.

People who think that we have Kings, and the Rule of Law is at the whim of whatever a recent vote seems to indicate.

Politicians get to help make Laws, they don't get to do whatever they want because some highly propagandized lies got them into office.

#39

You aren't really technically required to type here when you don't have anything to say.

But, it's OK because when you do, it just proves that you don't have anything at all.

What Trump thinks is 'right' is whatever benefits Trump first.

People who don't know that by now are in the Cult.

"The stated reasons for [Trump's actions] are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation," read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest.

"As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims."

from the thread link

But Bill knows better.

#80

Pretty funny in light of what white Christians in South Africa say about this farce in #79.

Yeah... this country spent the last 100 years making sure that many nations in Central and S America became and stayed Banana Republics led by Authoritrians who crippled economies while violently suppressing their people.

And Trumpers can't understand why these same people want to get away from the monsters we created for them by coming here.