Posted on 05/12/2005 4:48:34 AM PDT by francke
In a statement issued Tuesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced that it will "add the voice of the Catholic Church" to the call for major immigration legislation, including a guest-worker program and a path to citizenship for illegal aliens in the United States. Cardinal McCarrick, the Archbishop of Washington said religious teachings justify aiding illegal aliens.
"We go right to the New Testament and say, him or her who is without sin cast the first stone," he said. "How many of us have not violated some laws, whatever they might have been -- either they're traffic laws or immigration laws or tax laws, something like that." Let’s see. If you violate traffic laws, you pay a fine and lose your license. If you violate tax law, you pay a fine, and possibly go to jail. But if you violate immigration laws, we grant you citizenship and confer all the benefits that our entitlement-loving, swollen bureaucracy can offer?
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativenews.us ...
You are EXACTLY right. They've been doing it in Tennessee for YEARS! I know for a fact!!! Americans are soooooo stupid.
You fellows frequently post disinformation. However, you post it in the WRONG place. Many of us here are very familiar with many topics and Mexican history is one of them. When Benito Juarez came to power in Mexico, the Catholic church controlled nearly 1/2 of the real estate in that country. ONE HALF. And, the church properties were TAX EXEMPT. He told them they could only have the land where the building stood. They incited Eugenia of France, empress to Napoleon III, to push for an attack by France to restore the Catholic dominance. Maximilian was installed as emperor in Mexico and shortly thereafter the Mexicans came back and overthrew and executed him. Part of this whole affair was the Cristero Rebellion in which ignorant peasants were convinced to fight for the Catholic church's cause and then abandoned when the church went with the established government after seeing "mene mene tekel upharsin" so to speak written on the wall.
How someone can know the history of the Catholic church's involvement in politics throughout time and still remain Catholic absolutely blows my mind. No where in the New Testament do I read of a role for the church of setting the political playing field in any secular governing situation. No where.
Very good posts. Agreed, It is very hard to be a good Christian.....
Thanks.
Here are more links.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/march2004/hogan.htm
and 3 letters to the editor that follow the article.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/june2004/letters.htm
If "chickens come home to roost" then whatever injustices were given then were returned by way of an American Civil War later.
My family was different, but point taken. However, we are moving towards allowing things in other languages, not promoting English.
Definately agree with you. The trend isn't to unite through speaking one language. I suppose one can make a case for Switzerland but it's a different country than this one.
When I go the local DMV, I get so upset over the fact that other than myself, very few people speak English. And I am told to accept it and laud it as if it is some good thing. It is not. It is destroying us!
A DMV clerk told me that over 50% of the documents presented for getting driver licenses are fake. All are from foreigners, illegals obviously if they aren't presenting real IDs. My mother was hit twice by illegals driving their relatives' cars. Guess who ended up paying? Balkanization isn't good. I hope republicans don't turn chicken on this driver issue.
Oh they will!. The GOP has shocked me since the election. I can not imagine Kerry would be much worse. Think about it - Illegals? Spending? Etc Etc. I volunteered for GWB for a week on my own dime in FL.
We just had a judge overturn DMV regs refusing to give licenses to those with bogus SS numbers. We are finished. If we cannot even as a nation prohibit driver's licenses to illegals with fake docs, what is left????
http://www.newyorkmagazine.com/nymetro/news/features/11961/index.html
I sent this tidbit to two people who were involved with the MM project.
Don't get me wrong... I almost went back and added before I posted that we need to shut off the spigot and have a mandatory cooling off period of between 6 months and two years while we round these people up and sort them out before we consider letting anyone else through.
I'm willing to be all kinds of merciful and agreeable AFTER we have control of the situation, not before.
But I'm definitely not pro illegal. I support three layers of concertina wire with a guard shack every kilometer. With reinforcements five miles back to meet at the quarterback if anybody breaches in force. Most people would say that makes me quite hawkish on the border.
I don't know why everybody is so enamoured with technology that they'd rather spend a billion to do something that could be done the old fashioned way for a few million.
Benito Juarez is one of the few leaders, the total of which can be counted on the fingers of ONE hand, who truly cared about the people. He was a good man and what he did was GOOD for Mexico. That is a fact, plain and simple. If his plan would have been upheld, Mexico would have had a chance. As it is now, it's a joke and everyone knows it. You just gave us the root of the problems in your discussion.
He gave the land to the people. He was a good man. I stand on what I wrote. No apologies. And yes, if he could have eliminated Catholicism from Mexico, the country would have had a better chance. The corruption DOES come from Catholicism.
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