"As you remember, Mr. Speaker, the high priest said to Jesus, did you really say those things? Did you really preach those things? And Jesus said to the high priest, as the Jews were watching, ask them. They were there, they can tell you. That was, Mr. Speaker, the assertion by Jesus that he had a right to face his accusers. That principle remains today in our law that we have a right to face our accusers. And when he said ‘ask them, they were there, they can tell you,’ he’s facing his accusers and demanding they testify against him rather than make allegations behind his back. And what happened when Jesus said that? They believed and the high priest believed that Jesus’ answer was insolent, and the guard struck Jesus. And Jesus said, ‘If I speak wrongly you must prove the wrong. If I speak rightly, why do you punish me?’" https://www.c-span.org/video/?314153-5/representative-steve-king-immigrants
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Date: 2019-01-18 08:14 pm (UTC)Когда в 2013 его осудили за расистские высказывания про иммигрантов, Кинг, выступая в Конгрессе, сравнивал с себя с Иисусом, распятым сами знаете кем. https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/civil-rights/immigration/ADL-Letter-to-Rep-Steve-King-Regarding-Immigration-Comments-7-26-2013.pdf
"As you remember, Mr. Speaker, the high priest said to Jesus, did you really say those things? Did you really preach those things? And Jesus said to the high priest, as the Jews were watching, ask them. They were there, they can tell you. That was, Mr. Speaker, the assertion by Jesus that he had a right to face his accusers. That principle remains today in our law that we have a right to face our accusers. And when he said ‘ask them, they were there, they can tell you,’ he’s facing his accusers and demanding they testify against him rather than make allegations behind his back. And what happened when Jesus said that? They believed and the high priest believed that Jesus’ answer was insolent, and the guard struck Jesus. And Jesus said, ‘If I speak wrongly you must prove the wrong. If I speak rightly, why do you punish me?’"
https://www.c-span.org/video/?314153-5/representative-steve-king-immigrants