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Dear Steve,

Glenn Beck just did it again. In another attempt to spread fear and hate, he attacked churches that talk about "social or economic justice," saying these are code words for Communism and Nazism. It's an attack on values that are at the core of many religious traditions, including most Black churches -- values that were central in the civil rights movement and the fight to end slavery.

Our friends at Sojourners, whose mission is “to articulate the biblical call to social justice," are confronting Glenn Beck's attack on social justice, and we want to invite you to join them. While the ColorOfChange community is not defined by any particular faith, we think this is a great opportunity for those of us who are Christian to push back against Glenn Beck's attack on the values that so many of us see as central to our faith and morality.

-- James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Milton and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
March 15th, 2010

P.S. Social justice is an important value to many non-Christians as well. If you're not Christian and you'd like to send Glenn Beck a message about his attack on social justice, send an email to socialjustice@colorofchange.org -- we'll deliver your message to Beck.

(Forward)

Dear Steve,

This time, he’s crossed the line.

Last week, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck urged Christians to leave churches that use the words “social justice.”

Then today, on his morning show, Beck said social justice was a “perversion of the gospel” and complained that social justice and economic justice were code words for Communism and Nazism.

Really?

Considering that the Catholic Church, the black churches, the mainline Protestant churches, and more and more evangelical and Pentecostal churches all consider social justice central to biblical faith, what’s he really advocating? A complete disregard of the gospel and millennia of Church teaching?

Of course, Christians may disagree about what social justice means in our current political context. And that’s an important debate. But the Bible is clear: From Moses to the Hebrew prophets to Jesus, social justice has been an integral part of God’s plan for humanity.

Beck said that, if his church were about “social justice,” he would report his church to the church authorities. What authorities? Church bodies as diverse in their theology as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Association of Evangelicals have explicitly endorsed social justice as a biblical imperative.

So here’s our idea: How about reporting ourselves to Glenn Beck as church members and pastors who practice and preach social justice?

Because Sojourners’ mission is “to articulate the biblical call to social justice,” our founder and CEO Jim Wallis was the first to “turn himself in.” Since yesterday, we’ve had more than a thousand other Christians join him.

What about you? We invite you to “turn yourself in” to Glenn Beck as a Christian who believes in social justice. And while you’re at it, invite some friends. Let’s send him thousands of names.

Add your name to the list here:

http://act.colorofchange.org/go/99?akid=13...

-Sojourners

Posted By: Steve Williams
Monday, March 15th 2010 at 10:16AM
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Beck must think social justice is a new concept.

From Notes on the State of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson):

The poor, unable to support themselves, are maintained by an assessment on the titheable persons in their parish. This assessment is levied and administered by twelve persons in each parish, called vestrymen, originally chosen by the housekeepers of the parish, but afterwards filling vacancies in their own body by their own choice. These are usually the most discreet farmers, so distributed through their parish, that every part of it may be under the immediate eye of some one of them. They are well acquainted with the details and ;oeconomy of private life, and they find sufficient inducements to execute their charge well, in their philanthropy, in the approbation of their neighbours, and the distinction which that gives them. The poor who have neither property, friends, nor strength to labour, are boarded in the houses of good farmers, to whom a stipulated sum is annually paid. To those who are able to help themselves a little, or have friends from whom they derive some succours, inadequate however to their full maintenance, supplementory aids are given, which enable them to live comfortably in their own houses, or in the houses of their friends. Vagabonds, without visible property or vocation, are placed in workhouses, where they are well cloathed, fed, lodged, and made to labour. Nearly the same method of providing for the poor prevails through all our states; and from Savannah to Portsmouth you will seldom meet a beggar. In the larger towns indeed they sometimes present themselves. These are usually foreigners, who have never obtained a settlement in any parish. I never yet saw a native American begging in the streets or highways. A subsistence is easily gained here: and if, by misfortunes, they are thrown on the charities of the world, those provided by their own country are so comfortable and so certain, that they never think of relinquishing them to become strolling beggars. Their situation too, when sick, in the family of a good farmer, where every member is emulous to do them kind offices, where they are visited by all the neighbours, who bring them the little rarities which their sickly appetites may crave, and who take by rotation the nightly watch over them, when their condition requires it, is without comparison better than in a general hospital, where the sick, the dying, and the dead are crammed together, in the same rooms, and often in the same beds. The disadvantages, inseparable from general hospitals, are such as can never be counterpoised by all the regularities of medicine and regimen. Nature and kind nursing save a much greater proportion in our plain way, at a smaller expence, and with less abuse. One branch only of hospital institution is wanting with us; that is, a general establishment for those labouring under difficult cases of chirurgery. The aids of this art are not equivocal. But an able chirurgeon cannot be had in every parish. Such a receptacle should therefore be provided for those patients: but no others should be admitted.
Monday, March 15th 2010 at 11:25AM
Steve Williams

I learned last Friday while watching Count Down that Beck is a Mormon when a representative from Sojourners' said that the Mormon church has called them to apologize over Beck's behaviors on demeaning social Justice, because as he is a member of this faith , he has been taugh about social justice by this faith the same way that Christians teach about Social Justice...

Also this representative talked about how one of them has found in the Bible 2000 teachings by Jesus in preaching Social Justice in the Bible ... and how he had cut them out and they no want Gleen Back to read a Bible that has all 2000 cut out of it and explain why any preacher / priest should be TURNED IN as Beck has asked the members whose priest , preachers teach-preach this should turn them in! for doing this in their churches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Count Down also had on display a an officiall letter that Sojurners' had written to Beck that was dated on March 12, 10...

"I" believe that Beck and his network owners and their sponsors should be called into account for promoting this ABUSE OF POWERS, the CHRISTIAN FAITH over our public air waves and even in our print media. (I am not smiling)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

This is an issue on freedoms of speech which, I am so glad that so many Christian churches have now banned to gather on calling a boycott on the Beck radio and TV programs. All speech is not protected nor is it socally / morally accepted. (smile)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA