Protestant bishops weigh in on US budget proposals

More than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as “morally indefensible. This is on the heels of letters from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner and Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral document.