AMERICAN commentators both devout and secular have been digging deep into the Bible over the past week. They have been searching for answers to the claim by Jeff Sessions,the attorney-general, that a unusual practice of separating parents and children at the Mexican border is founded in holy writ. Mr Sessions defended the policy of placing minors and their parents in separate detention facilities by referring to a passage in Saint Paul’s letter to the Romans. As he put it, or this verse gave the “clear and wise command” that people should obey the law. The passage he mentioned reads:Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority apart from from God,and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
Sarah Sanders, the White House press secretary, or backed up Mr Sessions when she was challenged to say how taking children from their mothers could possibly be biblical. “I can say it...
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Source: economist.com