Boff accuses deputies who voted to impeach Rousseff of breaking Second Commandment

Liberation theologian Leonardo Boff has launched an excoriating attack on the deputies of Brazil’s lower house of Congress who voted in favour of the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff last Sunday, writes Francis McDonagh.

Writing on his website, Professor Boff compared the behaviour of the parliamentarians to “that of little children playing in a nursery. Screaming on all sides, choirs reciting their slogans against or in favour of impeachment.” Boff continued: “The oddest feature was the role of the president of the House, who chaired the session, Deputy Eduardo Cunha. He faces proceedings in the federal supreme court.”

Boff singled out “dozens of deputies from the evangelical bloc” who “made speeches that ... invoked the name of God. And all, without exception, voted for impeachment. On few occasions have there been so many breaches of the Second Commandment that forbids taking God’s holy name in vain.”