pharisee

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

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

“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.”

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

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