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FReep This Poll - Should churches be able to offer sanctuary to illegal immigrants?

Not only no, but Hell NO!

I feel so strongly about this that I would support the penalty of loss of tax-exempt status to any church that does this.

If I wanted to live in a society where the church is not only a co-government, but has the arrogance to ignore or override the laws of the secular government, I would move to Iran...

A possible solution to this problem, which has been re- enacted in Canada also, is accountability. If the church has it's way, then it might be a simple matter to have them put up a bond. It seems that in so many cases and this includes lawyers and activists, that they triumph over the established laws.

So far so good. What is seemingly not realized by the general public, is that once released into any society, the Church/activists then lean back and smile.

If there is any negative result and it is a bad choice, the ordinary citizen who comes into close proximity with any problem, has to deal with it. This includes any burden on the already over taxed citizen.

Have the church guarantee THEY will stand accountable for THOSE persons. If they will not, then they are hypocrites

Should churches be able to offer sanctuary to illegal immigrants?

A lot of people (well, a lot of non-Freepers) don't know this was more or less the same reason for the battle between (Saint) Thomas Becket and Henry II: The Church had declared that a church was place of refuge from civil authorities. The bad guys took full advantage of this. Small armies of them would lounge around there by day. At night they would head out in to the general population, do whatever bad guys do, and then come dawn it was back to the church. Once inside they knew the authorities couldn't touch them -- the Church would see to that.

This policy wasn't making the Church very popular, with government officials or the general population. Henry II was determined to end the Church-as-sancuary (a.k.a. secular trumps religious). An equally determined Archbishop Thomas Becket, declared Church lands, building, courts, etc. were inviolable (a.k.a. religious trumps secular).

And the rest, as they say, was history....

Though in all honesty, the more I know of the circumstances the more I side w/ the king. Lol! As if after 600+ years it matters.