Posted on 03/23/2006 12:28:28 PM PST by Crackingham
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the Bible yesterday to criticize a stringent border security measure that, among other things, would make it a federal crime to offer aid to illegal immigrants.
"It is hard to believe that a Republican leadership that is constantly talking about values and about faith would put forth such a mean-spirited piece of legislation," she said of the measure, which was passed by the House of Representatives in December and mirrored a companion Senate bill introduced last week by Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and the majority leader.
"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself," she said. "We need to sound the alarm about what is being done in the Congress."
Mrs. Clinton, who is running for re-election this year and is leading in polls for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke at a news conference in Manhattan with more than 30 immigrant leaders after meeting with them privately.
The meeting took place in an atmosphere of mounting urgency, as the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops called on its flock to oppose the measure, and tens of thousands of immigrants around the country stepped up a series of protest rallies in anticipation of a Senate vote on competing immigration bills next week.
Mr. Frist's bill, like the House measure, would make it a crime to be in the United States without proper papers and would add guards and fencing along the Mexican border, and speed deportation.
Some versions, including one proposed by Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, would expand the definition of alien smuggling to include help to illegal immigrants already here.
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I think anyone deliberately violating our immigration laws is acting as a vigilante and should expect to be prosecuted.
See, answered it AGAIN.
OK, a guy kills your wife, oh, I mean your "Life Partner". He then hides in a Church of Scientology. Tom Cruise agrees to hide him because he never liked your "life partner" anyways. Yes, I think Tom Cruise should go to jail. No I think Katie Holmes was not that believable on Dawsons Creek but she should not be charged.
Do you have any more hypotheticals you want to ask?
Perhaps she's readin' out of Billy and Jesse's cliff note version?
Even Satan can quote scripture.
Where's the ACLU when you need them!
(/sarc.)
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"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scripture because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself." says Hillary.
Well I guess someone should point out to Hillary that Jesus was tried as a criminal, convicted and crucified.
you can't tell her that...it doesn't fit her agenda.
If they're hungry, feed them. If they're thirsty, give them water. If they need shelter, give them shelter until the immigration department arrives. It's the human thing to do.
If the law says to turn them over to immigration, there's nothing inhumane about that, either. They'll still get food, water and shelter until they're deported.
The only thing that spawn of Satan knows about the Bible is hitting conservatives over the head with it.
I'm not babbling - if you don't understand the question, please let me know, and I will clearly (and as simply as I can) try to clarify. HR 4437 could, in fact, make it illegal for a church to give food and shelter to illegal aliens - I disagree with that (and, unfortunately, that puts me on Hillary Clinton's side for this one issue). As for the guy who just molested and killed 1000 children, the Church should neither hide him nor turn him over, especially if they know of that crime only through confession.
I agree with Arianne Huffington and others who have pointed out that Hillary is dishonest and lacking in character and should never get a chance to run for president.
You are skipping two steps ahead: the question pending is whether you think the Church helping someone regardless of their immigration status should be criminalized? I believe you want to answer this question "yes" but sense a trap or something which is why you want to assume something similar to HR 4437 is passed in the Senate, survives committee, and makes it into a law, and then answer THAT question. How about this - I will agree with you if the feds pass this, and Mahony violates said law, he should expect to go to jail. Does that help?
The problem is, at least with the section of this proposed law I quoted above, that when the immigration department arrives, they may take the priest into custody as well. You really want that political PR mess on your hands?
Did you see my question to you above? I seem to recall you never answered my question on another thread whether you wanted all LEGAL immigration stopped either. So, if you decline to answer yet again, no surprise.
For the last time banshee. Religion has no business in gov't. I don't want the gov't killing children for not behaving, or killing people for being gay. I also don't want the gov't turning the other cheek or staying away from judging people.
I want the government to uphold the laws of it's citizens and do the best to protect it's people that are alive. If that means preventing murder, good, if that means protecting property rights, good, if that means stopping abortion, good, if that means telling everyone that can pray to whatever God they want, good.
Yes or no: Do you think the Church helping someone regardless of their immigration status should be criminalized?
Lord where art thou that this evil woman can even utter Jesus'name without being struck down?
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