ATLANTA – President Joe Biden attention made a historic. Pilgrimage to the “Church of America’s Freedom.” On Sunday to mark Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Saying democracy is at a dangerous moment. And the civil rights leader’s life and legacy “leads us and we must heed.”
As the first sitting president to deliver a Sunday morning sermon at King’s.
“He said, ‘Where do we go from here?'” Biden said from the pulpit.
“Well, my message to this nation on this day is that we go forward. We go together, when we choose democracy over dictatorship. When we choose a beloved community over chaos. When we choose to believe and dream, to be active, to be fearless, always . Keeping faith.”
two years removed from a violent uprising in a divided country. Biden told the rally, elected officials. And dignitaries that “the battle for the soul of this nation is perennial. It’s a constant struggle … between hope and fear, kindness and cruelty, justice and injustice.” .”
He spoke out against those who “traffic in racism, extremism. Insurgency” and said the struggle to protect democracy was going. On in the courts and ballot boxes, protests and other means. “At our best, the American promise wins. … But I need not tell you that we are not always at our best. We fall. We fail and fall.”
Ebenezer’s stop came at a delicate moment for Biden after Attorney.
General Merrick Garland on Thursday. Announced the appointment of a special attention counsel to investigate. How the president handled classified documents after leaving the vice presidency in 2017. The White House on Saturday released that more classified. The records were found at Biden’s home near Wilmington, Delaware.
In introducing Biden, the church’s senior pastor, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, noted. That the president was “a devout Catholic” for whom. “This Baptist service can be a little chaotic and animated. But I saw him there clapping.”
King, “the greatest American prophet of the 20th century.” As Warnock said, served as associate pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968.
Warnock, like many battleground state Democrats up for re-election in 2022. Distanced himself from Biden during the campaign as. The president’s approval rating lagged and inflation rose.
But with the election behind him and a full six-year term ahead.
Warnock embraced Biden in the service. Nearby, he asked Biden to come to the front of the church and ask Ebenezer’s. Congregants to pray for the president as. He listed several of Biden’s legislative accomplishments.
“This, my friends, is God’s work,” Warnock said, adding that Biden “had little to do with it.”
As Biden begins to focus on an anticipated 2024 re-election effort. Georgia is going to get a lot of his attention.
Ebenezer’s stop came at a delicate moment for Biden after Attorney. General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced. The appointment of a special counsel to investigate how. The president handled classified documents after leaving the vice presidency in 2017. The White House on Saturday released that more classified. The records were found at Biden’s home near Wilmington, Delaware.
In introducing Biden, the church’s senior pastor, Democratic Sen.
Raphael Warnock, noted. That the president was “a devout Catholic” for whom “this Baptist. Service can be a little chaotic and animated.
King, “the greatest American prophet of the 20th century.” As Warnock said, served as associate pastor from 1960 until his assassination in 1968.
Warnock, like many battleground state Democrats up for re-election in 2022. Distanced himself from Biden during the campaign as. The president’s approval rating lagged and inflation rose.
Nearby, he asked Biden to come to the front of the church. And ask Ebenezer’s congregants to pray for the president as he listed. Several of Biden’s legislative accomplishments.
“This, my friends, is God’s work,” Warnock said, adding that Biden “had little to do with it.”
As Biden begins to focus on an anticipated 2024 re-election effort. Georgia is going to get a lot of his attention.
