When Sessions invokes Romans 13 he’s reading the Bible through his white, patriarchal, confederate Christianity that marshaled the same argument using the same passage to defend slavery on the grounds that it was both biblical and lawful.
Wil Gafney
The Rev. Wil(da) Gafney, Ph.D. is the Associate Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. She is the author of Daughters of Miriam: Women Prophets in Ancient Israel and coeditor of The Peoples’ Bible and The Peoples’ Companion to the Bible. She is an Episcopal Priest and a member of both the historic African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas and Dorshei Derekh Reconstructionist Minyan, both in Philadelphia.
