Last month Administration spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Fox News that the country should leave the fate of the planet in “the hands of something and someone much more powerful than any of us,” presumably referring to God.

Well, freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) corrected this with words from the Bible and mentioning her own Catholic background.

To share words from our UU Pocket Guide, our history is important to us. Both our Unitarian and our Universalist traditions rejected the notion that “higher” authorities—be they theologians or bishops, rabbis or preachers—could impose their views upon the laity. This is the historical source of our commitment to freedom of belief, congregational polity, and lay empowerment. Read more.