Abusing Scriptures

From: Rocky Mountain News

WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom Tancredo has accused leaders of some of the country's biggest religious denominations of being out-of-step with their own parishioners on the issue of illegal immigration.

Tancredo, a Littleton Republican, released a statement today blasting the U.S. Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society for lobbying against a border-enforcement bill that passed the U.S. House of Representativeslast year.

"The faith community must step forward and tell leftist activists that undermining border security is not a religious imperative," Tancredo said in the release. "I call on the conservative majority of churchgoers to contact the activists who are
misrepresenting their beliefs."

Various religious groups have lined up against the House-passed bill, which calls for building a fence along portions of the U.S.-Mexico border, plus tougher enforcement against illegal immigrants and those who employ them.

The Washington, D.C., office of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) issued an action alert to members saying, "This enforcement-only bill is anti-immigrant, unfair, and unjust."

Elenora Giddings Ivory, of the church's Stewardship of Public Life advocacy program, said the church's position on immigration is based on the Biblical stories from Matthew 25, verses 31-46, which talk about nations being judged, in part, by how they treat strangers.

"We have a position that supports compassionate immigration policy, so any bill that comes forward and does not fit with a compassionate understanding of immigration policy would be held up to that," Giddings Ivory said.

First, YAY Tom Tancredo!

Second, I have most certainly read my bible and I don't think for a second that's what those verses are talking about. What's really sad to me is that like every other proponent of illegal immigration all you have to do is follow the money as they sell us out.

Illegal aliens are big money for the church. Hispanics are propping up the dying Catholic Church in America so they'll take all they can get and we can piss off as far as their concerned. I'd like to believe this is about compassion and whatnot, but I don't think it is. Several of the Protestant denominations get fed dough to help illegals in various ways.

How depressing is this, didn't churches used to support the law?

H/T The Immigration News Daily

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