Posted on 03/18/2006 9:19:19 AM PST by sanormal
In a tiny house on the West Side, two nuns provide a daily break for Mexican immigrant mothers struggling to raise families in a foreign culture.
The nuns teach English, computer skills and arts and crafts. They celebrate birthdays and invite residents to the local Catholic church for Masses. If requested, they give advice on applying for citizenship.
It's free. No questions asked. Not about religion. Not about legal status.
But the work of the 7-month-old Presentation Ministry Center and similar organizations could be in jeopardy, according to opponents of a bill approved by the U.S. House in December.
As part of a proposed overhaul of immigration law, the House wants to make it a crime for any individual or group to knowingly assist the nation's estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants.
Whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish or Islamic, religious leaders say critical social services to the undocumented potentially could be reduced — if not stopped — should that part of the bill become law.
It could force them into a moral quandary: Obey civil law or God's mandate to show compassion to the poor.
Many religious leaders already have made their choice.
"If they want to put a bunch of priests and ministers in jail, then we're going to have to face the consequences," said Father Jim Loiacono, pastor of Our Lady of Refuge Catholic Church in Eagle Pass, four blocks from the Texas-Mexico border. "It's heartless because these are people who are so desperate there's no way we can turn them away."
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They tell me what the alien should do but not what I should do to them. Your posistion is like the guy that demands his wife be obedient while ignoring his requirement to love her like Jesus loves us.
It is not right to hold up one part of scripture so that it is repugnant to another.
Yes, the alien is required to obey our laws and yes we are supposed to treat him as we would treat ourselves. In that we desire to throw them out, we have violated our obedience while expecting the alien to obey his obedience.
I think we already know what we should do as Christians. We can give the lawbreaker the dignity we owe everyone. food, emergency shelter and medical help, but we should not help a criminal continue his criminal and immoral behaviors.
If you think a Christian is required to help with a crime, then you must help and look the other way with the rapist, the murderer, the thief and the embezzler and on and on.
Liberals don't have any "faith"....that's why they're liberals. They kill babies and applaud men who have sex with one another.
I guess they figure giving a package of chips and a bottle of water to a "sojurner" will cover their gross sins and the God they don't believe in will look the other way.
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