4 Christian Reactions to Trump's Executive Order Ending Family Separation Policy

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

The United Methodist Church

Delegates pray before a plenary session at the United Methodist Church's 2016 General Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Delegates pray before a plenary session at the United Methodist Church's 2016 General Conference in Portland, Oregon. | (Photo: Facebook/United Methodist General Conference)

The United Methodist Church garnered headlines when hundreds of its bishops officially denounced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a member of the UMC, for his defense of the family separation policy.

Bishop Kenneth H. Carter Jr., Council of Bishops president and leader of the Florida Conference, released a statement quoted by United Methodist News Service expressing support for the executive order.

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"An executive order ending separation of families at our borders is good news, and a reversal of an inhumane and immoral practice," said Carter.

"We rejoice with these families as they are reunited. We give thanks for a prophetic church that joins God in the deliverance of the most vulnerable from bondage and oppression."

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