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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If that evil bitch ever touched a real bible, she would burst into flames!!!!!!!!!!!
If the church, gives them help and then sends them back to where ever they are fron, no worries. If they hide them and help them break the law, then screw them.
What was the point of asking that question over and over and over?
I quoted a section from the proposed law - please guarantee it will not apply to Good Samaritans.
Why would it so long as you are also assisting the person in complying with the immigration laws of these United States? You shouldn't take the law into your own hands, you know.
I agree. If the church, gives them help and then sends them back to where ever they are fron, no worries. If they hide them and help them break the law, then screw them.
What was the point of asking that question over and over and over?
Mrs. Clinton Says G.O.P.'s Immigration Plan Is at Odds With the Bible Base
Always wondered if the Clinton Hollywood, photo op Bible has blank pages?
LOL!!!!!!
A bit stronger than I would have said it but correct nevertheless!
What was the point of asking that question over and over and over?
You know how leftists just love to chant things.
Vince Foster agrees with Hillary. From the Grave, of course.
Reagan was before my time and my dad says the MSM is doing the same thing to President Bush as they did to Reagan. The whole MSM makes me sick - I just read where the MSM has a lower public opinion rating than President Bush (I only watch or listen to those stations that call him President rather than "Mr. Bush)
R - jane
See post #84.
Do not take the law into your own hands because you are not above the law.
Why is it up to the Church to send them back? Do you expect the Church to investigate and prosecute murders too? I (not "FormerLib") will ask the question over and over until someone answers it.
It makes it a fact if you say it over and over and over.
I was going to respond and then I saw he was asking the same question to 20 people.
What a dolt.
Yes, you do misunderstand the parable. The "Good Samaritan" who was engaged in an act of human kindness was the foreigner. The hapless victim on the side of the road was not (at least he isn't clearly identified as such).
The parable is a allegory anyway, which means it has to be understood in both worldly and religious/philosophical terms.
Yeah - that would be vigilantism and people here are fine with that we already know - so, no problem them when Mahony takes the law into his own hands, right?
Maybe someone else will answer my question.
14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
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If the church conceals a murderer and keeps them from justice, the people reponsible for those action are going to be prosecuted!
Yes or no: Do you think the Church helping someone regardless of their immigration status should be criminalized?
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