MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart asked an Episcopal bishop for advice on how devastated supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris might deal with those who voted for her opponent, President-elect Donald Trump.
Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire appeared on The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart for its first episode since Trump swept the Nov. 5 election with 312 electoral votes and a majority of the popular vote. Capehart asked for religious guidance for voters grappling with the fact that Trump was elected despite his “hostile” campaign, which the anchor said was, at times, “racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, transphobic.”
“How do we move forward when we know there are people in their families who voted for [Trump], they work with people who voted for him, they live next to people who voted for him?” Capehart asked. “How should we deal with those neighbors, coworkers, family members?”
“Well, first of all, we have to remain passionate about protecting these most vulnerable people. You’re absolutely right — if this new president does half of what he says, there will be so many of them in danger,” Robinson responded. “I think the way to move forward in a family or in the whole culture is this: Every religion in the world has some version of ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you,’ ‘love your neighbor,’ even love your enemies those of us Christians have.”
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“And here’s the trick: Loving has little to do with liking. You don’t have to like someone to treat them like the child of God they are. You can argue with them, you can fight with them over all kinds of things, but you can’t not treat them as a person of worth and respect that God created them to be,” Robinson said.
Many of the supporters behind Harris referred to her loss last week as a loss for women. This sparked a discussion behind the 4B movement, in which South Korean women have denied men dating, sex, marriage, and children. Others have shaved their head in protest, while even more are documenting their travels outside the country.