Posted on 03/23/2006 11:50:06 AM PST by Crackingham
How can I take this article seriously? The title alone is false. Leaving "illegal" out is a deliberate lie.
I'd tell them to but out. Remember that thing about Church and State?
There's a Catholic church here in our city that harbors illegals and the priest continually tells the congregation that they need to embrach their hispanic brothers and sisters.
Phooey! I'll embrace them alright. In handcuffs.
Please call them INVADERS and don't compare them to people who are legal aliens!
President Bush has been great on most things except for our border.
He has been great on the war on terrorists.
But on the border he is a gross failure.
He acted fast and correct on the 3,000+ people murdered at the world trade center.
He ignores the many rapes, murders and robberies which might be larger than the murders and money loss at the world trade center.
More Americans are abducted on the border of Mexico than in Iraq!
Start building the fence.
It should be made a felony for Criminals who overstay their visas and Invaders.
I believe we should give amnesty to these poor CRIMINALS or INVADERS.
This should be a 2 week amnesty to get the heck out of our Country.
The ones who ignore this amnesty should be buried in a tent city jail and fined $10,000 or buried elsewhere.
All aiders and abettors of these CRIMINALS or INVADERS should get 1 year in a tent city jail and a $10,000 fine for each CRIMINAL aided.
Those in government should be the first ones charged.
Sorry for the crude analogy, but isn't this like feeding the stray cat dog whatever that comes to your house? Will it not keep coming back? Will it not survive without you?
I have no problem with a church helping out in a humanitarian way someone who approaches them for help...food, clothing. However, when the aid becomes an organized effort that promotes an illegal activity then I think they have crossed the line.
Exactly. Having them go to the church is one thing. Having the church go to them is another.
I would expect the enforcement of any future law to be just as good as the enforcement of the current law requiring financial and criminal penalties for employers hiring illegals.
The Rev isn't exactly putting his neck on the block.
Does said church get a tax break or no taxes? Maybe that would fund the drain on the economy caused by illegals!
What are Christians typically taught about breaking the law or assisting others in breaking the law.
"Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what is God's"
"I came not to abolish, but to fulfill"
There are others not readily on my tongue, but I have pinged another.
These people really ought to quit it. It's not genuine, and it's just plain clumsy. Even if you take the parable as not being a parable but a true story, she's still wrong, as pretty much the whole region had long been absorbed into the Roman Empire by the time Jesus was doing his work. TO argue that Jesus was undocumented is also a laugh, particularly if we are to continue in the path of reading it right out of the Bible. It says clearly as ever that he was taken to be circumcised and accounted for at the proper time in accordance with the law.
No, I was not hollaring the "To" above. Darn that sticky shift key!
Ya want to help the downtrodden in the turd world? GO THERE! You wnat to tell me they have a right to invade my country?
Stick it Padre.
hmm..that's an interesting question rohn. It might be worth looking into..
Should the Church leaders be assisting Enron employees who participated in staging the false "trading centers"?
"If some members of Congress have their way, Sena's work would soon be a crime. A proposed federal law could make it illegal for individuals like her to help undocumented immigrants."
So? It IS illegal already: aiding and abetting lawbreakers.
Religionists should keep their pontificating noses out of our affairs.
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