New force for broad immigration reform: conservative evangelicals (No way "evangelical leaders")

CNN ^ | 5/10/2010 | Dan Gilgoff

[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.

[ZULU]

The REAL problem is the diconnect between clergymen and theoir congregations.

These opinions, which are at odds with those of the mainstream Christian Churchs’ clergy, are an explanation for fact that organized religion in America is not as strong as it was once and why so many Christians are remaining Christian in thought, but leave the churches of their ancestors.

[Razz Barry]

When these illegals become legal, will these “good” Christians have their church members support them financially, or will they expect those of us who are against amnesty to support them? When these people become legal, they will qualify for all sorts of government programs. Just providing for their anchor babies is more burden than we can pay now. IMHO, it is not Christian to push for something that will force others to bear the cost. These people, no matter what THEY THINK Jesus would want, do not have the right to give my birthright away. I don’t want to live in a third world cesspool. If they THINK it is their duty to help illegals, help them go home and change their government. Don’t help them stay here and change our country into what they ran form.