Posted on 09/06/2005 9:34:16 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
For more than five years, Xiaodong Li and about half a dozen friends gathered weekly in their hometown of Ningbo, China, to study the Bible and sing hymns. Then one Sunday morning in April 1995, in the middle of one of the services inside Li's apartment, three cops stormed in, handcuffed Li, and escorted him to the local police station.
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Just have them change their story to that they are homosexual...
he didn't jump the border from Mexico, so he must leave.
That's the rule!
The "Real" President let them stay on the West Wing.
..and here I was thinking it was because he didn't float over from Cuba in a car-boat.
Not so, the U.S. Attorney General's Office argued. In prosecuting Li for engaging in illicit religious activities, China was simply motivated by a desire to maintain social order, not persecute based on his religious beliefs, the office contended.
The line between religious belief and religious activity in Li's case is a fine one, according to the Fifth Circuit judge writing the opinion in the case.
"While we may abhor China's practice of restricting its citizens from gathering in a private home to read the gospel and sing hymns, and abusing offenders, like Li, who commit such acts, that is a moral judgment, not a legal one," he wrote.
Because the Chinese government tolerates Christianity, so long as it's practiced in a registered group, the Fifth Circuit concluded that reasonable and substantial evidence supports the Board of Immigration Appeals decision that Li was punished for illegal activities and not for his religion.
I'm way past sick of Chicom appeasement.
"..and here I was thinking it was because he didn't float over from Cuba in a car-boat."
Car boats from Cuba will be granted asylum if they are...........
A) 56-57 Chevy Bel Airs
B) A vehicle coveted by the employees of the border patrol or INS.
Small children alone will be terrorized, and then deported.
*raises hand*
Um . . .? May I point out that this Chinese man is seeking the very thing that the Pilgrims sought by coming to America in first place! It's a good thing the Amer. Indians didn't have a nationally established court system way back in the 1700's. Geeeeeeeeeez.
THIS MAKES ME ANGRY, AND EVERYBODY ELSE SHOULD BE HORRRIFIED BY THIS! THIS IS THE GOD-BLESSED AMERICA FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! Where are religious refugees supposed to GO?
I could just cry. SOMEBODY needs a fat kick where it hurts.
Amen - let's see THAT on the Statue of Liberty.
Bush failed to flush out all the Clinton AG's when he came in. This is the result.
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