What Would Jesus Say About This?
There’s a troubling silence echoing through America’s churches right now. As politicians pass policies that rip food from the hands of the hungry, slash healthcare, and cage desperate families seeking asylum, I’m left wondering: where is the moral outrage from the pulpit?
Specifically, I wonder how many Republican officials—those who proudly align themselves with “Christian values”—will be challenged by their pastors, congregations, or religious communities for the suffering they are enabling. Because let’s be clear: you can’t serve both the Sermon on the Mount and Project 2025. One calls for compassion, justice, and love of neighbor. The other is a blueprint for domination, cruelty, and economic exploitation.
Jesus never said, “Blessed are the tax cuts for the rich.” He didn’t flip tables in the temple just to have today’s leaders bow to corporate greed while gutting support for the poor. And yet, here we are, with self-declared Christians cheering policies that funnel money upward and treat the most vulnerable like burdens instead of blessings.
Where is the accountability?
We hear so much about personal morality from the religious right—yet astonishingly little about public morality. They rage about drag shows, but stay quiet about children living in squalor under government custody. They preach about “family values” while endorsing leaders who mock the disabled, abuse power, and lie as easily as they breathe.
It’s not just hypocrisy—it’s moral failure.
It’s time for faith leaders to speak up, to reclaim their pulpits from partisanship, and to remind their congregants that compassion is not optional. Silence in the face of suffering is complicity.
To the churches who still have courage: we need your voices now. And to the elected officials who claim to follow Christ: your votes speak louder than your Bible verses.
Julie Bolejack, MBA
