‘Jesus Is Not a Ally of the Republican Party’

Comedian John Fugelsang said Friday on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour” that he believed Jesus Christ was not an “ally of the Republican Party.”

Fugelsang said, “I would love to leave behind right-wing fundamentalists and Christian nationalists use Jesus, his birth as we celebrate, as a prop, while legislating and fighting against his actual teachings. There are a lot of right-wing brother and sisters in this country that identify as Christians, and ignore the 30 years of teaching.”

He continued, “Jesus is not an ally of the Republican Party. There is no overlap of Jesus and the policies of Donald Trump. In South Carolina, they tried to have a bill this year calling for the death penalty for abortion. We’re so pro-life, will kill you. That’s where we are at right now.”