(TJVNews.com) Taking on the controversial Reverend Raphael Warnock who is at the center of the Georgia US Senate Run Off on January 5th, Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday said that the senate candidate has “defended the antisemitic rhetoric of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright”.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the no-holds-barred former senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, was known for his fiery, and some would say inflammatory, sermons.
Warnock, the 50-year-old pastor of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, was among the religious leaders who said Wright had been taken out of context and misinterpreted by the mainstream.
About six months into President Obama’s first term, Wright blamed Jews for not letting him speak to the president.
“Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me,” Wright told the Daily Press of Newport News, Va. in June 2009. “They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.”
Yahoo News reported that the first-time Senate candidate also has ties to another radical black theologian, Dr. James Hal Cone, who has called White Christians “satanic” and called for “the destruction of everything white.”
Warnock praised Cone in a book he wrote in 2013 and again in 2018, when he delivered the deceased preacher’s eulogy.
“How blessed we are that someone of the spiritual magnitude and power and commitment of Dr. James Hal Cone passed our way,” Warnock said.
At a Georgia rally, Pence said Warnock is “too radical and too anti-Israel” for the Senate, telling the crowd there they should send back the state’s two GOP senators to block the Biden administration’s agenda, according to a report at the Independent of the UK.
Both sitting GOP Georgia senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, face Democratic challengers in 5 January runoff elections.
Pence called his fellow Republicans “two Georgia senators who will get in the way of the radical agenda of the Democratic Party and fight for Georgia everyday.”
“If you don’t vote, they win,” Pence said. “There could be nothing from preventing Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi from advancing their radical left agenda.”
The Independent reported that if Republicans win just one of those seats, they will maintain a razor-thin majority when the new Senate is seated early next month. But if both Democratic candidates, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, win, that party would take the majority – via Vice President-elect Kamala Harris being able to cast the tie-breaking vote.