"You are the same people that will slap the loaves of bread out of Jesus' hand, slap the fish out of Jesus' hand, and tell them to get in line and figure out if they're worthy or eligible."
July 13, 2023

Des Moines, Iowa resident Felicia Hilton said during the debate on the state's six-week abortion ban what most women and friends of women are thinking. She called out politicians for their hypocrisy in feigning to be pro-life while cutting back on food assistance for children.

"I'm here as a woman," she said. "I'm not representing anybody but myself, my daughter, my daughter-in-law, my four granddaughters, and we all relocated to this state."

"And I am mortified that we picked to move to Iowa right now," Hilton continued. "So for Kim Reynolds, Bob Vander Plaats, who I don't even know who that is, he threatened judges in a newspaper, and now all of a sudden you guys are going to go and sign this at his celebration of some church celebration, I hear?"

"Where was he when Kim Reynolds was saying she wasn't going to feed kids anymore?" she asked. "These same kids that you've made harder to get eligible for SNAP when infant meal is $30 or more a can? Really? Really? Where were they then?"

"Where are all these church people when she's denying people health care?" she continued. "Where are they, then? I'm just saying if this is about the church and if this is about God, you are the same people that will slap the loaves of bread out of Jesus' hand, slap the fish out of Jesus' hand, and tell them to get in line and figure out if they're worthy or eligible."

"Are they eligible for this food, Jesus?" she said. "Are they eligible for healing, Jesus? Are these people good enough?"

"Is that what you're telling me in the state of Iowa?" she asked. "That you get to choose who this is? Yeah, you, the people that think this is a great idea. Who gets to choose this? Who does this? This is absolutely an offense to women."

"This is an offense to everybody. And it is offensive that you're going to go celebrate the oppression of women at a church," she said. "You're going to go celebrate the oppression of women at a church."

"But the church wasn't there when she's going to cut the food assistance from the federal government to people," she continued. "Where were you then? The church is not there."

She was told her time was up, but Ms. Hilton wasn't finished.

"I do not care," she said. "This state is ridiculous. This stupid, stupid, ridiculous, self-righteous crap. You're not better than anybody. You're not better than anybody. Because you got money, that's who you serve."

"Money, that's who you serve," she continued. "You don't serve God; you serve money."

She was reminded that her time was up again.

"I don't care," she added. "I do not care. It doesn't matter. This is a lie. You guys are lying to yourselves, and you're offending everyone, including God."

Felicia Hilton is all of us. She's my new hero. She needs to get into politics. We need her voice.

H/T: Heartland Signal.

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