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‘The Filibuster Is Sinful’: Left-Wing Minister Questions Joe Manchin’s Faith

Ben Johnson
‘The Filibuster Is Sinful’: Left-Wing Minister Questions Joe Manchin’s Faith
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A left-wing activist and minister has told Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) that refusing to abolish the filibuster is a “moral contradiction” to the senator’s Christian faith, claiming that the filibuster “is sinful.”

On Monday, Rev. William J. Barber II led 200 people in a protest dubbed the “Moral March on Manchin” outside the senator’s office in Charleston. There, they read a “Letter to Senator Manchin from Moral and Religious Leaders,” which said Manchin’s support for the filibuster called into question his religious beliefs.

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