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To: stephenjohnbanker

Slavery simply put is legal and given blessing by congress, senate, White house, and the CATHOLIC church...


7 posted on 06/18/2006 3:01:27 PM PDT by television is just wrong (our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: television is just wrong

Slavery is ok with the Catholic Church? Where and when? Regarding U.S. History and Congress, and the Senate and the White House, definitive slavery was terminated after the Civil War. Prejudice and racist attitudes was not.

If you mean that illegal aliens who work for less than minimum wage are slaves, well, not technically. They aren't bought or sold, and they've entered into a contractual relationship, albeit illegal with all parties involved. They've given up their ability to negotiate a fair wage because they're here illegally, and their employer, who is illegally hiring them, holds the cards. The illegals should be deported and their employer should go to jail. As for the
Church, it's never approved of slavery and has often been aiding those who are unjustly treated by employers or plantation owners. Please provide some concrete examples and so I can retract my understanding of history.


8 posted on 06/18/2006 3:09:34 PM PDT by john drake (roman military maxim: "oderint dum metuant, i.e., let them hate, as long as they fear")
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To: television is just wrong
Slavery simply put is legal and given blessing by congress, senate, White house, and the CATHOLIC church...

WRONG! What the Church is working for is justice for those who are being treated this way. She's working for laws that would protect people. Having them registered, and given work cards would go a long way toward this. Then employers with immigrants without those cards could be SEVERELY punished, and the word would go out not to employed those who are not registered and checked out by the govt.

15 posted on 06/19/2006 6:56:45 PM PDT by SuziQ
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