Sunday School Lesson: 1 John 3

So  today in Sunday School we were talking about the Epistles of John.  The focus of the lesson being that God is Light, God is Love and it is through us that the love of God can be made manifest.

At one point we read 1 John 3: 16-18

 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
 17 But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

And all I could think is how morally bankrupt it is of Scott Walker to declare that he wouldn't let Syrian refugees relocate to Wisconsin.