'It is time for people with a moral conscience to wield every ounce of influence and power they have towards justice and to force this nation to be true to what it said on paper,' wrote RevDrBarber of theology_policy.
on Monday decrying recent decisions by far-right Supreme Court justices and the complicity of political leaders who have"watched our democracy being slowly chipped away."Moral Declaration for America
"When a Supreme Court and political leaders conspire to lie about history and embrace action contrary to love and justice, their actions are both piracy and perjury at the same time," Barber wrote.
Barber pointed with outrage to the"six people on the Supreme Court"—a reference to the court's conservative justices—who"sealed the deal on the destruction of affirmative action, an imperfect but significant legal precedent that had only begun to scratch the surface of repairing the history of legal segregation in our higher education system."
"It is unbecoming to admonish extremists on Monday and then strike deadly compromises with them on Tuesday."
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