I think I do know what he'd do about abortion, though.
“Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and give to God what is God’s.”
Meaning obey the laws of the land. He would recognize them as trespassers.
Enforce the law.
My version of Catholicism accords high value to the rule of law. And unless Mexico and the rest of Latin America are a Hell hole that merits denunciation as a moral abomination — and the Catholic bishops decline to say that — then it is perfectly acceptable to send illegals back to where they came from.
He would say, “There are too many of you.”
>>Southern Baptists respect and strongly support upholding America’s laws, he said, but they “also recognize a biblical mandate to care for ‘the least of these among us’ (Matthew 25:34-40), to care for the ‘strangers’ who reside in our land (Leviticus 19:34; Hebrews 13:2) and to act justly and mercifully (Micah 6:8),”
This is all true, except that the illegal immigrants have a country of their own. They aren’t being oppressed there. They aren’t having their religious liberties taken from them at home. They are just migrating here to take our money and send it home. We could help them a lot more by overthrowing their corrupt government, prosecuting the military officers that work for the drug cartels, and destroying the cartels themselves than we ever could by bankrupting ourselves to give them freebies.
These aren’t refugees. They are invaders.
What DID Jesus do about anything political? Nada! He wasn’t political, it was all salvation.
OK. Say you have a christian heart and you see a homeless Hispanic family. You offer to let them live in your spare bedroom while they get on their feet.
(stay with me on this)
Now you see another homeless Hispanic family and you offer to let them live in your backyard in a tent. You have no more bedrooms available but, they can come inside to use the bathroom and kitchen though, or just hang out on the couch.
Now what have you done here...... Through your Christian charitable heart you have ruined life for your own family and MORE IMPORTANTLY ........... you have ruined the quality of life for the ORIGINAL homeless family you were first trying to help, because of taking on WAAAAY more than you could handle.
I think this is exactly what illegal immigration is doing to us. Being a christian DOES NOT mean that you are obliged to help without common sense limits.
Government was ordained and established by God to manifest and preserve His justice on earth. This is government's central purpose; as such, the state should concentrate on enforcing justice and avoid meddling in other institutions' business.
Jesus would build the fence. No question. Then he’d deport all illegals who were criminals and make the others go to the back of the line to get citizenship. He’d probably also make them pay taxes, or at least deny them benefits until they became citizens.
I don’t think that Jesus had a position on every political issue.
As a Southern Baptist, I called the convention in Nashville and talked to a sweet lady about leaving the convention over Land’s stand with Obama on this. I perplexed her and all she could tell me was to talk with my pastor, but just wanted to get something started in Nashville.
This may not be from the Holy Words, but
Good fences make good neighbors.
Gosh! I wonder what God would do if someone got past St. Peter at the pearly gate. Why, I bet that could never happen. St. Peter is way too good at protecting Heaven’s borders. Don’t you think?
I’ll tell you what. When God opens heaven to all comers, I’ll reconsider my position on national sovereignty.
The Bible shows many examples where not only is a nation allowed to defend itself against foreign invaders, God helps Israel to defend itself!
As a Southern Baptist, if my neighbor is an illegal alien and needed my help because he was starving, injured, sick, etc., I would help him recover from his problem...feed him, get him medical help... whatever... and then encourage him to return to his own country and then apply to enter the US legally. He is a human being and needs help. But he is also breaking the law and needs to make things right. If he refuses to stop violating the law, then it is my responsibility as a US citizen to report him to immigration.
The woman responded “Yes Lord but dont the dogs get the scraps off the masters table (faith and humility)” To which Jesus replied something like “Go your faith has made your daughter whole”
Joseph and Mary were on their way to Bethlehem as part of an effort to register for some sort of census/tax role. I imagine that Jesus would have been inclined to register via the proper channels of authority. As far as someone else registering,I have to suspect that a malicious narco-syndicate murder and an innocent peasent would have markey different experiences in confronting Jesus on the subject.