A vocal critic of the “zero tolerance” immigration enforcement separating illegal immigrant parents and children, Bishop Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, told Bold TV that he was glad to see President Trump’s executive order this week to stop the procedure. “‘It’s a first step, and I hope that it’s a more than symbolic first step,” Bishop Curry said. “I’ve been doing this [protesting] since the Bush administration, the Obama administration and now the Trump administration, because the lives and the people who are affected, that’s what really matters.” Bishop Curry said the separation policy unified the country in some respects. “This is actually a point of convergence between liberals and conservatives, we actually all care about families,” Bishop Curry said. “Now you can get into a whole bunch of specifics where we disagree, but we really do believe children ought to be raised in the context of families, however you define those in a family. That’s the healthy context. And to separate them, clearly it caused a response that was at once visceral, but actually the visceral was related to some shared values.” Bishop Curry said he had been ordained almost 40 years and seen hypocrisy across…
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