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Instead, they’ve become some of the shrillest Pharisees in the right’s culture war, especially against anything that resembles embracing LGBTQ+ folks.

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The rebuke by the Pharisees who saw this elicited Jesus’ rebuttal that he was “Lord even of the Sabbath” in Matthew 12:8.

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“But I don’t want to be the Pharisees of this generation, where I turn it into some kind of rule that there’s never an exception for.”

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His words were drowned out by abortion rights supporter Beau Black, who repeatedly screamed: “Hypocrites and Pharisees! Hypocrites and Pharisees!”

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Much like the Pharisees, today's American evangelicals do not represent the faith in any genuine way.

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