Thread: 100 NM "Faith Leaders" Sign Letter On NM Licenses

100 NM Faith Leaders Sign Letter On NM Licenses

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POSTED: 11:43 am MDT September 21, 2011

William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, a national group that seeks reduction in illegal immigration, said his group was asking volunteers around the country to contact New Mexico lawmakers to support the repeal.

SANTA FE, N.M. -- More than 100 religious leaders from around New Mexico have submitted an open letter to state legislators in support of a state law that lets those illegally in the country get New Mexico driver's licenses.

Leaders from a dozen or so faith affiliations submitted the open letter Wednesday as pastors and rabbis lobbied lawmakers. Religious leaders denounced in the letter the "hate-filled rhetoric" surrounding the debate over attempts to repeal the law.

Holly Beaumont, Director of Interfaith Worker Justice New Mexico, said around 115 pastors, clergy, rabbis and other religious leaders signed the letter.

William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, a national group that seeks reduction in illegal immigration, said his group was asking volunteers around the country to contact New Mexico lawmakers to support the repeal.

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Friends of ALIPAC,

We have fought many state legislative battles over the years and have played a key role in stopping illegal aliens from getting driver licenses in many states!

It has been a long hard road, but we are now down to only three states that still give licenses to illegal aliens thanks to your donations of time and funds.

Today, there is a fierce political battle raging between true Americans and the illegal alien supporters over licenses for illegal aliens.

The new governor of New Mexico campaigned on a promise to stop the state from giving licenses to illegal aliens.

Now, her efforts to honor her promise to American voters are being blocked by Democrats in the New Mexico state legislature.

It is time for our legendary ALIPAC Activists from across America to swing into action in New Mexico!

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N.M. Religious Leaders From About a Dozen Faith Affiliations Sign Letter on Driver’s Licenses

By The Associated Press on Wed, Sep 21, 2011

More than 100 religious leaders from around New Mexico have submitted an open letter to state legislators in support of a state law that lets those illegally in the country get New Mexico driver’s licenses.

Leaders from a dozen or so faith affiliations submitted the open letter Wednesday as pastors and rabbis lobbied lawmakers. Religious leaders denounced in the letter the “hate-filled rhetoricâ€

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Isn't there some relationship between a church having tax free status and being apolitical?

If churches start getting involved in legal policy, I say, tax them.

Here is a theory.

The Social Gospel, Councils of Churches, and Fabian Socialism
Called "Father of the Social Gospel," Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-191, grew up in a German Lutheran immigrant family in New York. He studied theology at the University of Rochester, one of hundreds of educational and "Christian" institutions funded by John D. Rockefeller. After pastoring a Baptist Church among poor immigrants in New York City for a few years, he joined the faculty at Rochester Theological Seminary -- also funded by Rockefeller. In 1902 he became its Professor of Church History.

From this prominent platform, he wrote books such as "Christianizing the Social Order" and "A Theology for the Social Gospel."[4] Steeped in "higher criticism" and socialist ideology, he taught what many considered a more relevant and compassionate gospel. As a result, he "changed both the emphases and the direction of American Protestantism."[5]

Rauschenbusch introduced Jesus "not as one who would come to save sinners from their sins but as one who had a 'social passion' for society."[6] He and his comrades established the "Brotherhood of the Kingdom," which unified like-minded church leaders under a common socialist quest for an earthly "Kingdom of God."

Their plan would have fit our times! It called for political reform, ecumenical unity, "Social Justice" and global peace. To justify its place in "Christian" theology, words like redemption and regeneration were redefined to fit their socialist ideals.[7]

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Popular church leaders use the same strategy today! Pastor Brian McLaren's recent book, The Secret Message of Jesus, twists God's Word into an endorsement of an earthly, interfaith Kingdom.[8] Likewise, Tony Campolo's hope of earthly perfection mocks the Biblical promise of eternal life:

"The gospel is not about... pie-in-the-sky when they die.... It is imperative that the up and coming generation recognize that the biblical Jesus was committed to the realization of a new social order in this world.... Becoming a Christian, therefore, is a call to social action."[9]

In 1907, Rauschenbusch met with the leaders of Fabian socialism in England, Sidney Webb and Beatrice Potter Webb. Unlike impatient Marxist revolutionaries, the methodical Fabians emphasized peaceful transformation through propaganda and infiltration of universities, seminaries and churches.

Through the years, this socialist movement grew to include Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells (who wrote Open Conspiracy), playwright George Bernard Shaw, Sinclair Lewis, Theosophical leader Annie Besant, and the Communist leader Harry Dexter White who worked with Alger Hiss to establish the United Nations.[10] It spread through Western nations -- thanks, in part, to liberal churches that preached its message as if backed by the authority of God.

As you saw in Part 1, the Rockefellers and other powerful "change agents" fueled this movement. Their funding would sway universities, seminaries, and churches from coast to coast. It supported psycho-social research through Hitler's eugenics program, through London's Tavistock Institute, and through various American Universities and institutions. This new "science" would raise propaganda, persuasion, and mind control to ever more sophisticated levels.

With Rockefeller support, Rauschenbusch and his Fabian protégé Rev. Harry Ward helped establish the Federal Council of Churches (FCC) in 1908.[11] Rev. Ward, through his Soviet connections and influential positions, would become the main source of Communist infiltration into the FCC (later renamed NCC, National Council of Churches), Christian seminaries, and compassionate unsuspecting pastors and congregations across the country. Hard to believe? Then look at the evidence below.

Communist Infiltration

The following testimonies were given under oath before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives, 83rd Congress, in July, 1953.[12] Robert Kunzig, chief counsel for the committee, asked the questions. Manning Johnson, formerly a top member of the Communist Party, answered this particular set of questions.

Page 2266, Congressional Record.

KUNZIG: "...the name Harry Ward has appeared in so many of these various organizations and groups. It seems as if there is almost an interlacing tie-up... through various sects and denominations. Have you any comment to make on this situation?

JOHNSON: "Yes, I have. Dr. Harry F. Ward, for many years, has been the chief architect for Communist infiltration and subversion in the religious field.

According to this Congressional Report, Harry Ward also taught "Christian ethics" at Union Theological Seminary [funded by the Rockefellers], presided over the Federal Council of Churches, chaired the American Civil Liberties Union, and worked with the Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A. and the Interchurch World Movement.[13]

Page 2170.

JOHNSON: "I would first like to read to you what William Z. Foster [General Secretary of the Communist Party USA] has to say on this matter."

'Communists must ever be keen to cultivate the democratic spirit of mutual tolerance among the religious sects.... A still greater lesson for us to learn, however, is how to work freely with religious strata for the accomplishment of democratic mass objectives....

'A very serious mistake of the American left wing during many years... has been its attempt arbitrarily to wave aside religious sentiments among the masses. Reactionary forces [mainly concerned Christians] have already known how to take advantage of this shortsighted sectarian error.... 'In recent years, however, the Communist Party, with its policy of ‘the outstretched hand,’ has done much to overcome the harmful left-wing narrowness of former years and to develop a more healthy cooperation with the religious masses....'â€

Originally Posted by Newmexican

Here is a theory.

The Social Gospel, Councils of Churches, and Fabian Socialism
Called "Father of the Social Gospel," Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-191, grew up in a German Lutheran immigrant family in New York. He studied theology at the University of Rochester, one of hundreds of educational and "Christian" institutions funded by John D. Rockefeller. After pastoring a Baptist Church among poor immigrants in New York City for a few years, he joined the faculty at Rochester Theological Seminary -- also funded by Rockefeller. In 1902 he became its Professor of Church History.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-250541.html

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The Rockefellers are premiere world-class globalist socialists, perpetuating their socialist goals of World Order upon Americans for decades. It is no secret they have infiltrated organized religion in the United States. The major denominations have become socialist laboratories instead of havens of the Gospel of Christ.

Those now operating this same globalism are deeply embedded in all of the major denominations, and now incredibly even the Southern Baptists.

Instead of preaching the Gospel, they are preaching socialism.

New Mexico and Alabama are dealing with religious hypicrites that seem to have an agenda.


Alabama's Religious Left Sues
By James R. Edwards Jr., July 15, 2011

Even Alabama has a Religious Left, and the ecumenical crowd – typically more concerned with bringing about temporal comfort than heavenly peace – has joined the despicable Southern Poverty Law Center and the ACLU in suing to stop the state's new immigration enforcement law.

Here's what one of the liberal plaintiffs clad in sheep's clothing asserted:

"Today, our mission and the missions of many religious groups across Alabama have been made impossible by the recently enacted Alabama immigration law," said Scott Douglas, executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, a plaintiff in the lawsuit. "This law interferes with the free exercise of religion. It violates core values of various faiths because it criminalizes acts of love and hospitality – commandments from our God of many names."

These Leftists of religious costume seem unfamiliar with certain Scriptures, which are morally and theologically authoritative for serious Christians. Romans 13:1: "Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established." I Peter 2:17: "Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king." And the Son of God, Jesus, who is called the Christ and from whom the very term "Christian" comes, said, "[G]ive to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's" (Luke 20:25).

Like many other states and localities, Alabama has enacted a law seeking to address the failures of the federal government in enforcing immigration law and of Congress in leaving legal immigration levels at four times our historical average. This law deals with the consequences of immigration as ramrodded upon states and localities. It was duly enacted by legitimate democratic means. Alabama's law does no such thing as the things the misguided Pharisees claim. (See for yourself here.)

There remains plenty of room for individual acts of love and hospitality to be shown even to illegal aliens without committing unlawful acts, under Alabama's law. But that's apparently an inconvenient truth, so in the name of religion some have chosen to break one of the Ten Commandments and bear false witness against state lawmakers and the state law. Woe to those hypocrites! To quote the Lord, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains" (John 9:41).

http://www.cis.org/edwards/alabamas-religious-left-sues