Posted on 08/01/2015 6:47:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Sanctuary cities” have been in the headlines for weeks.
Late last week, the House of Representatives voted to strip federal funds from sanctuary cities, which refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts. And in early July, an illegal immigrant who had been deported five times and convicted of seven felonies shot and killed a young woman while she was walking with her father and a friend along a pier in San Francisco, a city famous for its sanctuary policies.
Sanctuary cities have existed for decades – the first one was established in Los Angeles in 1979 – as places of asylum for refugees and others in the country illegally. By one count, there are more than 200 sanctuary cities in 32 states and the District of Columbia.
The recent San Francisco murder has prompted renewed scrutiny of sanctuary cities. But while most of the debate has focused on the legal and political ramifications, I’d like to offer the following thought experiment: what if there were sanctuary cities for religious conservatives?
Imagine if some city in red-state America – perhaps Little Rock, Arkansas; Dallas, Texas; or Bowling Green, Kentucky – decided to be a refuge for unborn children and refused to grant business licenses to abortion clinics.
What if a city decided that it was going to be a sanctuary city for the Ten Commandments and displayed them in schools, libraries, and the county courthouse?
What if a city decided that it was important for children to have mothers and fathers, declared itself a sanctuary city for traditional marriage, and refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples?
I’m kidding, but only slightly. A glance at the news headlines underscores the growing need for a place of refuge for conservatives.
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Based upon what I’ve seen this last year CWII would not end well for the leftists at all.
I see...since you’ve gone to gun shows, you conclude that the calculus in a shooting war favors a handful of gunbuyers..you are aware, I assume, that should the leftists hold power, the federal military, as well as municipal police forces, will be at their beck and call, and your ‘shooting war’ will be more like target practice...
There will be no ‘shooting war’; anyone advocating such needs to have his/head examined...and as for sanctuary for normal Americans, won’t happen either; someone has to pay for these little paradises, by the forced extraction of levies; there is no scenario by which a hostile federal government would allow those levies to beneffit those from whom they are extracted...
> I see...since you’ve gone to gun shows, you conclude that the calculus in a shooting war favors a handful of gunbuyers..you are aware, I assume, that should the leftists hold power, the federal military, as well as municipal police forces, will be at their beck and call, and your ‘shooting war’ will be more like target practice...
You assume that the military loves or will follow the orders of the left. Per my experience and conversations with them, they do not at all.
Coppell is home to the 6th largest Catholic parish in the US, St. Ann Parish. When we joined in 1996, it had barely 1000 families. Today, there are more than 8000 families and over 100 ministries.
We're bursting at the seams, but in a good way.
You assume that the military loves or will follow the orders of the left. Per my experience and conversations with them, they do not all...
I assume nothing...history has proven the willingness of uniformed soldiers to kill armed citizenry engaged in insurrectionist activity...which seems to be what you are advocating...
You read me wrong then. I am saying the military will turn on their own if ordered to shoot innocent civilians, that is uness they're wearing pink Nazi uniforms
I’m sorry to hear this. Maybe we’ll need to build an island in the ocean instead of a walled city.
Where ? I’d love to read about it.
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