‘Tennessee Three’ Dem calls prayers for trans shooting victims ‘a form of idolatry’

Democrats continue to insult Americans offering “thoughts and prayers” in the wake of last week’s tragic Minneapolis Catholic school shooting.

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones ranted about the “theological malpractice” during an appearance with MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Saturday, accusing those who are praying of committing a form of“idolatry.”

“There are people who play video games all over the world, and nobody has the problem the way we have it in the United States. So it might actually be about the guns,” Velshi said.

“I mean, that’s exactly it. And, you know, I want to take it a step further and say that — I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people who want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but I was a minister and that is a form of theological malpractice,” replied Jones, who led a 2023 gun control protest in the Tennessee House in 2023.

“When you pray for something that you have the power to change, there’s an African proverb that says, when you pray, you move your hands and feet. You know, what we’re seeing is a form of idolatry, where we’re willing to worship the lives of our children to appease the prophets of the gun industry,” the far-left lawmaker continued.

“In Tennessee, after the mass shooting at the Covenant School, the only law Republicans passed that year was to protect gun manufacturers from litigation. That’s what they did after children were killed in a school. It is cruel, it is shameful, it’s immoral, and it is something that is going to be a dark stain on American history, that we’ve allowed this to go on for so long unchallenged. And we have the power to change things,” he said.

“And I would say to my colleagues who serve in government bodies, that we —Keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you wanna address gun violence, you don’t need a tweet, what you need is a mirror,” Jones added. “You have the power to change things. You have the to power to take action. Now is the time, until it’s your child, because sooner or later it’s gonna hit home. And then it’ll be too late.”

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.

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