Posted on 05/25/2008 4:17:34 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Too bad our gutless leadership wouldn’t see this as an oportunity to easily round up some illegals for deportation.
Well, if the illegal immigrants are going to come in and spread tuberculosis and leprosy, I suppose this could be seen as our “first line of defense”. Not wishing anything on them, they volunteered for the job.
On the other hand, it seems to me to be Scripture twisting to ignore the passages that teach being subject to authorities and scoff at this country's immigration laws and harbor illegal aliens who are really fugitives. Note that in this country even illegal aliens are granted due process.
I think the Christian thing to do is to help people do well in their own country or help them to come to this country legally. I don’t see what is Christian about helping someone do something that is illegal.
We agree
I would also add the the elders of the local churches who scoff at this country’s laws will have to answer to the Chief Shepherd for ignoring His Word.
“We respect the laws of this country,” said Gomez, who’s originally from Monterrey, Mexico. “We’re not promoting illegal immigration or any kind of sanctuary movement.”
Here is a perfect example of a boldfaced lie.
The catholics have a lot of taxable church property, time to tax it!
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Here are some real faith-driven criteria:
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL.
It is sin to steal using anchor babies and other tricks to get—or give for votes—free Health & Welfare benefits.
THOU SHALT NOT COVET.
Be grateful; do not envy what’s not yours.
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS.
Don’t lie and perjure or accept fraudulent documents.
Too bad our gutless leadership wouldn’t see this as an oportunity to easily round up some illegals for deportation.
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It is much worse than being GUTLESS. They are COMPLICIT and encourage illegals — all at the cost of the American taxpayer and REAL CITIZENS.
Oh, luckystarmom! You really hit the target.
If these “faith-based” people would just spend their energies helping people in Mexico to become self-sufficient, to develop skills, to master basic economic understanding, and then to apply for citizenship legally.... that would be truly Christian.
And, so many of us would be willing to help in that endeavor.
True, but sometime preaching to the choir gets them out of the loft and into their humble public servants’ offices to make sure the situation is remedied!
Some will say Leviticus is archaic, but it seems that the Judeo-Christian tradition has always been built on an essential hospitality for the alien.
Seems to me there's some balance here that is not being struck.
Want to help the illegal alien? Encourage him to turn himself in, return home and apply for legal immigration to this country. Help him to support himself in his own country in the mean time.
Were Jesus to walk around in the U.S. today, he'd be visiting at the homes of illegals, among others. He fraternized with all kinds of lowly types - the poor, prostitutes, etc. He'd never encourage illegal behavior (unless in violation of God's law), but he'd surely forgive them...70x7. Frankly the bulldog, take-no-prisoners attitude I sense from many posters daily is flat-out un-Christlike.
Trying to make a pro-strong borders argument from a Christian perspective is a losing proposition - there is much less evidence on the law-and-order side of the argument.
I won't be voting for McCain because of his weak immigration positions. But, it's not because his positions are more or less 'Christian', it's because they don't jive with law-and-order and the morality of the law, which all comes down to basic justice. McCain's manner ('they are all God's children') is actually much more Christian than most peoples' manner here.
Praying for a Saint to aid in criminal activity? Just what part of Catholicism is that based on?
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