The Reverend J. Herbert Nelson is arrested in protest over debt ceiling negotiations
The Reverend Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, Director of the PC(USA) Office of Public Witness in Washington, D.C., together with nearly a dozen other religious leaders, was arrested this afternoon in the U.S. Capitol Building while engaging in prayer and civil disobedience. Frustrated that their pleas to the Administration and Congress to protect funding for the nation’s most vulnerable people are being ignored, the leaders refused to end their public prayers for an equitable resolution to the debt ceiling debate, despite repeated warnings from the U.S. Capitol Police.
A news story from this summer about a leader of my denomination and other faith leaders getting arrested for praying in the Capitol Rotunda as an act of civil disobedience and public witness in response to the debt crisis. Appropos my reblog from a few minutes ago.
