Posted on 12/21/2013 10:30:11 AM PST by Zakeet
Robert Chao Romero, an ethnic studies professor at UCLA who also runs a Christian youth ministry in Los Angeles, argues students are often taught Christianity and social justice causes such as immigration reform and affirmative action stand opposed.
But the way Romero sees it, Jesus would support immigration reform, affirmative action even the Affordable Care Act and its part of a message he gives to college students to teach them about Jesus heart for justice, he tells The College Fix.
Romero recently published a free ebook, Jesus For Revolutionaries, which spells out in detail why he believes Jesus would support all three measures.
When it comes to Obamacare, Romero said he and Jesus support it because 50,000 of my neighbors in the United States die each year for lack of meaningful healthcare.
To love them as myself requires that I support structural change to our nations health care system, he explains. The Affordable Care Act is far from perfect, but it is a strong step away from the status quo and towards loving our neighbors as ourselves.
Its the same concept behind immigration reform and affirmative action, he adds.
[Snip]
Romero said he supports immigration reform, and so does God.
I support immigration reform because millions of undocumented immigrants are being exploited as cheap labor, torn apart from their families through unjust deportations, and scapegoated by racist laws such as Arizona SB-1070, he said. God makes it clear through dozens of Bible verses that we are not supposed to exploit immigrants.
As for affirmative action, Romero cites 2 Corinthians 8:13, which states: Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality.
The goal of educational affirmative action is that there might be equality for students who come from backgrounds of poverty and from unequal educational systems, he says. Urban schools are largely the legacy of historical racism.
Dadgummed spell checker... Gooe = Good
And does your Utopian definition of "Obamacare" have any resemblance to what President Trayvon actually has in mind?
“Many of the students we mentor dont have a close relationship with any church.”
“and thus they are easy targets for the communist prpoganda we feed them”
I want to know chapter and verse where Jesus specifically taught that the government should take over the medical industry.
The Left has a blind spot when it comes to recognizing that Government is Force, and uses violence to enforce its edicts. They think that all they need to do is pass a law, and the good things they intended will happen.
Not only does Jesus support ObamaCare, he has voted multiple times in several Democratic Districts simultaneously. Motor Voter and all...
The queer can go suck goats... (kept it simple)..
I’m curious as to how much he is paying for insurance. Wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he’s not paying a dime, because he’s got some dumb idiots paying it for him. After all, he’s a man of the cloth, and doing God’s work, etc.
It is a shame that people do not yet accept the fact that America is being conquered by the “Third World.”(Third World is composed of a coalition of blacks wherever born, Latins, Asiatics and Non Christians. Quite naturally they will teach what they are comfortable with. “Justice” to them means total subordination of the Euro American to Third World hopes dreams, fantasies and abysmal ignorance. They cannot produce or create so they will take through sheer numbers. Remember people the Romans were a cultured, intelligent and refined people when conquered by the Germans, who in those days could hardly read and write. Notice the increasing “Third World” numbers filling positions of authority. I hope that at least Americans can become alarmed at the on going conquest.
hey professor if you want to think for Jesus... what do you think his opinion would be about abortion on demand?.. let’s start there
Jesus is a Bank Robber who gives the money he steals to his best friends.
That is something I never knew.
How did they die?
I think he is confusing “Jesus of Nazareth”, with “Haysoos,” his illegal alien gardener.
Where do these people find Jesus as a political activist in the Bible?
Stop with this nonsense.
Yeah, since is is conversing, maybe he can ask “jesus” if he can make a rock so big that he himself cannot lift it?
With Jesus, we don’t need ObamaCare. Jesus made house calls, and He never charged a dime.
Putting words in the mouth of The Word.
To love them as myself requires that I support structural change to our nations health care system, he explains. The Affordable Care Act is far from perfect, but it is a strong step away from the status quo and towards loving our neighbors as ourselves.
Nothing in this sentence makes any sense.....
Another education teacher ‘nut-case’.
“Putting words in the mouth of The Word.”
He must be insane then.
Quick, someone ask Pastor Romero what insurance Jesus (I am assuming he means Jesus the Christ, not Jesus Rodriguez) signed up for.
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