Listen To A Christian Pastor Push Back Against Sean Hannity's Anti-Refugee Rhetoric

Reverend Oliver White: If I Denied Anyone Into My Church, “What Kind Of Church Would I Have?”

From the November 23 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:

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SEAN HANNITY: Reverend let's say -- let's say that this number is right because we have polls out. Thirteen percent of Syrian refugees support ISIS. Alright lets say you take in a hundred in your home town -- I think you're in Connecticut, right?

REV. OLIVER WHITE: No, Minnesota.

HANNITY: Oh, you're in Minnesota, okay. So let's say we take in a hundred. That means thirteen out of the hundred would be ISIS supporters, sympathizers. Now, would you take them into your church?

WHITE: I certainly would.

HANNITY: You would?

WHITE: Yes.

HANNITY: And when they committed an act of terror even though the FBI and Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul and our director of national intelligence warned you that ISIS would infiltrate. If they blew up your church and killed people, would you feel like you were responsible?

WHITE: Yes I would.

HANNITY: Yeah, but so you're willing to gamble with -- wait a minute -- that means you're willing to gamble with the lives of your parishioners?

WHITE: No, I'm not -- I think gambling is the wrong word.

HANNITY: No, I think it's the right word.

WHITE: The doors to my church are open to anybody.

HANNITY: You don't have a clue but if we take in people that are going to infiltrate the refugee population and they commit an act of terror and we were warned about it ahead of time that seems to me like you acted foolishly and that people died needlessly.

WHITE: Well picture this, picture this. Picture my ushers saying to someone from the ISIS regime, I'm sorry sir, but -- or, or ma'am -- you can't come in here because you are this or that. That -- I mean, what kind of church would I have?

Previously:

Conservatives Use Paris Attacks To Stoke Fears About Admitting Syrian Refugees Into America

Hannity Misreads A Pew Study To Claim That “Significant” Numbers Of Muslims Support ISIS

Watch John Oliver Slam Anti-Refugee Rhetoric By Explaining The Thoroughness Of The Refugee Vetting Process