Posted on 05/10/2010 9:42:58 AM PDT by tobyhill
Tea Party activists and other conservatives are planning rallies next month in support of Arizona's tough new immigration law, which has come under attack from Democrats, Latino groups and some maverick Republicans.
But a growing chorus of conservative evangelical leaders has broken with their traditional political allies on the right. They're calling the Arizona law misguided and are attempting to use its passage to push for federal immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
The group, which includes influential political activists such as Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy wing, and Mathew Staver, dean of the Liberty University School of Law, will soon begin lobbying Republican leaders in Washington to support comprehensive immigration reform under President Obama.
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Not really on the Right then, are they?
Just another sign that mainstream Christianity in America has become politically bankrupt and irrelevant.
Christians should stick to their Bibles and stop looking to church hierarchies for guidance - they are corrupted.
The Arizona law DOES provide for a path to legal status! What’s wrong with these guys?
Let them pick sides.
Let them make themselves public.
Let them pay the price of demanding others pay the price for their “morality”.
My former pastor signed the Global Warming Pact a couple years ago and that’s why he’s “former”.
This Southern baptist says Land can pound sand!
If you do not stand for the rule of law, you are not a conservative and I don’t give a damn where you stand on any other issue.
I’m not a member of any organized religion.
I’m Methodist.
These two guys are ‘a growing chorus’? Nice try CNN.
Neither of whom is Conservative Christan Evangelical. So once again the Establishment Media's headline is prove a complete fraud by the meat of the story.
Just because a socialist, God-hating lefty wears a dog collar does not mean he is a Christian Evangelical leader. Not when CNN says so for sure.
These politically correct clergymen are driving congregants away, I don’t understand why they don’t get it.
I don’t want illegals to have a path to citizenship. I want them on the path back to their own countries.
Amen!
Good for you and your congregation!
Oh, I don't doubt that they found a group of evangelical "leaders" out there that support shamnesty, but they are NOT conservative and their chorus isn't growing. Probably some leaders of the shrinking Evangelical Lutheran Church of America which voted last year to allow gays to be pastors.
Keyword: immigrationpoll
Religious Leaders vs. Members: An Examination of Contrasting Views on Immigration
Zogby
Poll: Pew and Pulpit Disagree on Immigration Zogby Survey Finds Religious Leaders and Members at Odds WASHINGTON (December 29, 2009) - In contrast to many national religious leaders who are lobbying for increases in immigration, a new Zogby poll of likely voters who belong to the same religious communities finds strong support for reducing overall immigration.
Moreover, members strongly disagree with their leaders’ contention that more immigrant workers need to be allowed into the country. Also, most parishioners and congregants prefer more enforcement to cause illegal workers to go home, rather than legalization of illegal immigrants, which most religious leaders...
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