Statement on DHS and March for Economic Human Rights

from Marcus Pomeroy, religious leader

The Philadelphia City Government, specifically the Department of Human Services, has borrowed one of the most brutal and heartless pages from the "Handbook of Terror." In the style of the most repressive and cruel governments of the world, they are making arrangements to take the children of those who protest against the injustice of poverty. Seeking to silence the voice of the poor by intimidation, the Mayor and city officials are defiling the most holy of holies, the bond between a parent and a child.

This terrorism cannot be allowed. The voice of justice cries out in protest. The poor cannot be made to disappear through such acts of violence and brutality. All people of faith and conscience must respond and reject this latest effort to silence the call for basic human rights; food, housing, clothing, health care.

The communities of faith proclaim that God is watching what is taking place in Philadelphia. And God’s Justice for the oppressed will not be denied.

Marcus C. Pomeroy,
Pastor, Central Baptist Church
Wayne, PA