Christian group supportive of Obama jobs plan to target Bachmann
A Christian group says it will target U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann over her opposition to President Obama’s jobs plan.
Jul 31, 202025.9K Shares1.4M Views
A Christian group says it will target U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann over her opposition to President Obama’s jobs plan.
The group, Spirit of Faith Community, is planning a Wednesday afternoon demonstration at Bachmann’s Woodbury office using the biblical story of loaves and fishes to convince her to support a tax increase on the wealthiest Americans to help create jobs.
“Jesus would support this bill,” said Brandon Nessen, the group’s spokesperson. “Ask the wealthiest to contribute so that ordinary families can get back on two feet again.”
The group will re-enact the biblical story of Jesus Christ using either five or seven loaves of bread and several small fish, depending on the version of the story, to feed thousands of starving people. The story is seen as a lesson to help the less fortunate.
The event is being organized by members of the “religious left,” according to a press release. “A group of church-going progressives will descend on her Woodbury office to ask her to support President Obama’s jobs bill, which would use revenue from taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for infrastructure projects and other bipartisan policies aimed at stimulating job growth,” the group’s statement said. “The group will reenact a version of the biblical story of Loaves and Fishes to demonstrate that Jesus created abundance from apparent scarcity just as Congress could do with the President’s jobs package.”
TheSpirit of Truth Faith Communitydescribes itself as “a faith community from the Christian tradition that strives to put love and justice at the center of everything we do. We are a group of people who realized we wanted to live out our values of love and justice, and that we needed a faith community to do it.”
Hajra Shannon
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