By Tyson Thorne

January 19, 2017
 
 

President Elect Donald Trump has selected six professed Christians to play a role in his inauguration. This is the final installment in our three-part series where we tell you what we know about the team. We hope you’ll be watching the inauguration tomorrow and check back here for our analysis.

 

Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

After visiting holocaust sites throughout Europe in 1977, the Rabbi started a center in Los Angeles to support Jewish human rights causes. The Center maintains offices throughout the United States, and in Canada, Europe, Israel and Argentina and has some 400,000 constituents. Though not a follower of Jesus, Hier has helped Jewish families for decades and in 2008 was named the most influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek.

According to critics, Hier has been called the “most overpaid” executive of a charitable organization earning $1.3 million from the self-named center alone in 2012. The Rabbi has been close friends of Donald Trump’s in-laws for decades, which may explain his involvement in the inauguration. When asked about being invited Hier remarked that he accepted immediately as ““it was the menschlichkeit thing to do,” using the Yiddish word meaning honorable, “and I am proud to do it” also saying, it’s in the interest of all Americans to “pray and hope that Donald Trump is a great president.”

Hier will be the first Rabbi to speak at a presidential inauguration since 1985.

Timothy Dolan, New York Archbishop

Like Graham, Dolan is an obvious choice. The Catholic Archbishop of New York is a distinctly conservative man, both politically and theologically. From the time of his seminary days to present he has methodically risen through the ranks, continuously training and attempting to advance many of the churches stale institutions. Dolan was even considered a candidate for being the next Pope, though he lost out in 2013 to the current Pope Francis.

In 2012 Dolan hosted a meeting with other church leaders and crafted a document known as the Manhattan Declaration, in which it is stated:

Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar’s. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God’s.

By all outward appearances, Dolan seems to be a good man concerned with protecting America’s Christian heritage and biblical values in society. Aside from the differences we have with him being a Catholic, there are no red flags indicating he has been involved in anything other than Christian ministry and missions.

 
 
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