Many Christians frustrated with the Biden administration
District of Columbia | April 20, 2021
Many Christians are feeling frustrated with the Biden administration. A recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal points to how Joe Biden’s flip-flop on refugees is frustrating evangelicals who foolishly voted for him last November. As the Journal contributor noted, they have a reason to feel betrayed.
Believers who care about values, life, and religious liberty continue to find that the new administration has let them down time and time again. While Biden may attend Mass regularly, many of his policy positions raise questions of how diligently he practices his Catholic faith outside the four walls of his church.
The Journal op-ed, written by Sheila Joiner of Fort Worth, Texas, said she voted for Biden in large part because of his promise to restore the refugee resettlement program. Last fall Biden pledged to raise the annual cap on refugees to 125,000, a move that in Joiner’s words “sold” her on his candidacy.
But in the space of a few hours last Friday, the Biden administration went through a very public flip-flop on the issue. First, the administration claimed it would not raise the current year’s refugee cap of 15,000, violating candidate Biden’s own promise. Then, after a public outcry from the left, the White House said it could lift the cap on admissions eventually, but believed that time would limit the number of refugees it could admit between now and the September 30 end of the fiscal year….
(Excerpts from The Federalist)