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As a cleric who owes his spiritual formation to his long membership and education in Opus Dei, an organization fundamentally shaped by its origins in Franco's Spain, it's no surprise that Gomez is an instinctual social and political conservative. His book, in fact, grows out of talks he gave at the Napa Institute, which was founded by a wealthy and conservative Orange County Catholic layman, Tim Busch. As such, it's a novel attempt to make the case for immigration reform according to the values and historical fantasies popular on the American right. If that sounds like something of a shotgun marriage, it's because ... well, it is.....That's a sentiment sure to be appreciated by the "patriots" who blocked immigration reform in the House last week....only in those right-wing circles where "the rule of law" is tortured into a concept of criminality that equates flight from dire economic necessity with theft and murder....

....Apparently, Gomez stresses that most Americans have learned a history that omits the Hispanic and Catholic culture that existed in the land before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. "Long before America had a name, long before there was a Washington, D.C., or a Wall Street, this land was Spanish and Catholic," Gomez writes in the book. “Two hundred years before any of the Founding Fathers were born, this land’s people were being baptized in the name of Christ...The people of this land were called Christians before they were called Americans. And they were first called this name in the Spanish tongue."

1 posted on 07/15/2013 9:15:25 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: Alex Murphy
Commies aren't about raising everybody to their highest potential.

They're about smashing everybody down to equal levels of misery.

2 posted on 07/15/2013 9:22:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: Alex Murphy
Gomez goes out of his way to acknowledge the good faith of those who worry about immigration and who oppose reform. He agrees that no one should break the law, he acknowledges that people are often made fearful in the face of demographic change, and he takes the right of a country to protect its borders seriously.

IOW, if you oppose open borders you is a raccist.

3 posted on 07/15/2013 9:35:12 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea)
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To: Alex Murphy
Bienvenidos a América 2.

By the end of the century, we shall be Latin America's northernmost country. The "Hispanics" will be a majority. At the moment, their numbers approach 100 Million. (NSS!)

Of course, if you count LA County alone, there are 11 million illegal aliens + their "anchor babies." Add to that the millions of legal "Hispanic" immigrants admitted since 1965, and their offspring.

Any question of this being a good idea, or bad, is quite beside the point. It's just plain old arithmetic. Technically, the historical points the Archbishop makes are accurate. Mexico, Santo Domingo, Panama, Cuba etc. had already been in business for well over 100 years before the Pilgrims showed up.

So in the "Hispanic" view it is only natural that they complete this, the takeover, and turn us into what the rest of Latin America looks like, and make us just as functional.

Oprime número trés por inglés, pinche gringo.

5 posted on 07/15/2013 9:59:26 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ("Obama" The Movie. Introducing Reggie Love as "Monica.")
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Protesters Question Clergyman’s Loyalty
At Archbishop Jose Gomez Residence

Dozens of protesters have shown up at Archbishop of Los Angelus Jose Gomez residence many carrying American flags and bearing signs questioning his loyalty to the US not Mexico along with many signs demanding equal rights for American citizens in Mexico.

The protest was apparently triggered by the clerics decision to push forward with his predecessors decision the disgraced Cardinal Mahoney with offering amnesty thus citizenship to Mexicans crossing the border illegally while thousands of Americans in Mexico suffer under 2nd class citizenship unable to own property and suffer indignitys let alone participate in Mexican elections while living there in Mexico.

A spokeswoman for the group, Harriet Hildegarden insisted her group consists of Catholics loyal to the church. “We will be protesting at other locations where prominent clergy of the church have sided with the Obama regime”Hildy” claims the church is supporting the democrat party which denied God at their convention and declared what she claims is war on the Catholics but would collude with i t on many issues including “amnesty” .

When asked if she may be denied communion for her activities her reply was; “Well it’s been known that when that happens quicker when clerics get personally attacked than when some politican challanges the church on the grounds of faith and morals” . “You didn’t hear much from them (the bishops) about the Gosnell baby murderer trial. Now that it’s ended perhaps the bishops might call a “conference” next year but they sure acted swiftly when it comes to allowing this country resigning its sovereign rights and new parishioners.” the groups speaker concluded.

http://www.theusmat.com/natldesksatire.htm


6 posted on 07/15/2013 11:05:34 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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