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Moral Mondays in Washington, DC
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"Beginning on Ash Wednesday in 2025, clergy and moral leaders, like Dr. William Barber II, stood on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to insist that we must meet the brutality of the present regime with the nonviolent power of a moral movement. Opposition to abuses and extreme policies that will impact nearly everyone in this nation is inevitable; but autocratic regimes want violent and angry opposition that allows them to justify tanks in the street and protestors in jail.
A living cross, on the other hand, can expose the lies of the Trump regime.It can make clear to everyone—even those who thought this regime might serve their interests—that an immoral philosophy is driving the direction of policy:
- The deliberate attempt to use executive orders as way to intentionally violate the constitution, thereby creating enough confusion to distract the people from what is really going on in Congress that has the weight of law.
- The tyranny of technology and the dehumanization of people.
- The attempt to make people justify their existence, which has roots in racism apartheid, and fascism.
- The denial of equality on every front.
- The outright violation of freedom of speech, due process in the law, equal protection under law for all persons, and birthright citizenship.
- The outright betrayal of liberty.
- The idolatry of the certainty that underlies white supremacy.
- The misuse of religion in Christian nationalism as an attempt to falsely claim that their immoral actions are moral and just.
You don’t have to be Christian—or even particularly religious—to feel that we have descended into a hell of our own in America, where people can be snatched from their homes by representatives of our government and disappeared to a gulag in El Salvador without any recourse. Like the lynching trees of the South and the crosses of ancient Rome, these public acts of brutality are designed to inspire fear that compels the masses to comply.
But we cannot comply. We must transform today’s instruments of brutality into powerful tools that can expose the lies through the power of truth-force. This is the power of moral opposition. It is the work of Holy Saturday—and every day.
At 1:35 pm on Monday, May 5th, five moral leaders were arrested after refusing to cease praying in the US Capitol rotunda as an act of personal conscience following a “Moral Monday” prayer rally outside the Capitol. Those arrested lead organizations that have been confronting immoral plans to slash the federal budget since Repairers of the Breach published a moral budget analysis in early March. They include Rev. Alvin O’Neal Jackson, National Faith Convener for Repairers of the Breach, Rev. Hanna Broome, Director of Religious Affairs for Repairers of the Breach, Shane Claiborne, President of Red Letter Christians, and Ariel Gold, USA Director for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Rev. Joel Simpson of First United Methodist Church in Taylorsville, North Carolina.
We thank them for taking up this act of sacred defiance and prophetic sorrow. And we know they are not alone.
Even as these five were carried to jail, scores of other moral leaders hand-delivered letters inviting members of Congress to join us for a prayer with Americans who would be harmed by proposed cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, HeadStart, public schools, and federal housing programs.
We are sharing the text of that letter so you can send it to your member of Congress. Please add your name to the letter here if you’d like to receive updates about future Moral Mondays."
For more information and to add your name to a letter to Congressional Representatives, see the Moral Mondays website
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In-person In Washington, DC at the U.S. CAPITOL
DC
USA
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