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Posted on 09/17/2007 7:28:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Immigration Activists Clash At So. Calif. Church CBS News Interactive: Immigration and Naturalization
(AP) SIMI VALLEY, Calif. Dozens of activists on both sides of the illegal immigration debate faced off outside a church where an illegal immigrant is being sheltered with her U.S.-born infant son.
One immigrant-rights advocate was injured with a chemical spray during Sunday's confrontation at the United Church of Christ, and police were investigating allegations that an opposing protester was responsible, police Capt. John McGinty said.
Members of the anti-illegal immigration group Save Our State, which organized the rally that drew about 120 protesters and counter-protesters, said they had hoped to make a citizen's arrest of the woman, who has identified herself only as Liliana.
The woman has been living in the church's former parsonage as part of the New Sanctuary Movement, which arranges church accommodations for illegal immigrants in the U.S.
Group members shouted for Liliana, who lived in Oxnard before taking shelter at the church, to give herself up.
"I'm here because I'm for the movement for the illegals to go home," protester Dee Barrow said.
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It’s time we started making the churches in this country pay their fair share of taxes. We could eliminate payroll taxes entirely with just the property taxes of the Catholic Church alone.
That's a very liberal thought you've had there.
They certainly should lose their exempt status if they take an active stand on political/legal issues. Especially if they are promoting illegal activity.
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Oh Jeez, another one.
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Cannot tax a right, especially something that’s normally interpreted as being covered by the First amendment.
Yeah, like the government will really eliminate taxes in one area if they get an income stream from another sector. It'll just happily spend even more money, and the new burden on churches will only further consolidate governmental power in education and charity.
There must be 25,000 illegals in Oxnard alone.
Simi Valley is an odd place for a church to harbor an illegal. It is very conservative, and thousands of cops live there.
“We could eliminate payroll taxes entirely with just the property taxes of the Catholic Church alone.”
That’s a pretty big claim. Care to back it up with details and facts?
This particular church should have all its assets seized and the clergymen involved in aiding and abetting the violation of U.S. law prosecuted as Federal Statute requires. And that is conservative thinking, not liberal thinking.
Nice touch.
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Kind of probing each other, prior to escalation of violence.
Kinda idiotic, don’t ya think.....or maybe just a tad anti-Catholic is what you aimed at.
Once the Churches pay property taxes, they should also be allowed to criminalize any antichristian activity and incarcerate all the atheists in government, as well as being given the right to determine civil law within the country. This would include exercising capital punishment on Wiccans and other witches.
Can any one say "aiding and abetting"?
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For the record - I’m Catholic. And also for the record I am for religion just not for business masquerading as religion. I think ALL churches, not just Catholic churches, should pay property taxes and corporate taxes.
Take a good look at them, THEY ARE BUSINESSES. If they were walking the walk then government would have never been able to get a toehold in the charity business and we wouldn’t be taxed to death to pay for it. A true separation of church and state would be churches in the charity business and government out of the charity business.
Churches/organized religion should be feeding the hungry, housing the homeless and helping those in need. That is what their nonprofit status is supposed to be for. Instead they are always trying to build bigger and more grandiose buildings than the church down the block. Every minister and priest in my county is driving around in a brand new SUV or luxury car. So much for the vow of poverty. They are businesses and nothing more and should be taxed as such. End of sermon.
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