Thread: Evangelicals endorse immigration reform

Evangelicals endorse immigration reform

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By Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service

WASHINGTON — The National Association of Evangelicals on Thursday endorsed comprehensive immigration reform, saying new policies should reflect "biblical grace to the stranger."

"We seek fair and human treatment for those who are immigrants," NAE President Leith Anderson told reporters on Capitol Hill, shortly before testifying with other religious leaders at a Senate subcommittee hearing on faith-based perspectives on immigration reform.

Anderson said the NAE board adopted the resolution as growing numbers of immigrants fill the pews of churches affiliated with his organization, which includes 40 denominations and scores of other evangelical groups.

"Many of the immigrants in America are us," he said. "That is, the growing edge of evangelical churches and denominations in the United States is the immigrant community."

The resolution, approved overwhelmingly by voice vote of the NAE board, calls for the government to safeguard national borders, recognize the importance of family reunification and establish an "equitable process toward earned legal status for currently undocumented immigrants."

Asked for specifics of NAE's suggestions about undocumented immigrants, Anderson said the process should be a reasonable one that might require, for example, undocumented immigrants to pay back taxes.

"We are not suggesting that those that are already in the United States without documentation are automatically granted either residency or citizenship status," he said.

The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, commended the NAE for passing the resolution. He said it demonstrates that the issue is one that concerns not solely Latinos but a wide range of Americans, and represents a "Christian" rather than a political agenda.

"At the end of the day, immigration reform is an issue of justice firmly grounded on biblical truth," he said.
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Do they also endorse theft, coveting, lying and cheating? What a bunch of hypocrites.

We have Constitutional laws that demand a separation of church and state, and for very good reasons.

The evangelicals can either 1) Forfeit their tax exempt status, or 2) Get their self-serving backsides out of my government.

On the other hand, the illegal aliens and their lobbies have rendered our laws completely irrelevant, so why worry about what they try to pass now? Thanks to these criminal and their cohorts, the laws of this land have become nothing more than a bad joke.

You say you want a revolution…

These people are not the "Refugees" that these soft headed elitist believe. The migrants frequently have their property, their careers, their black market businesses in their homelands. They are just looking for a cheap and free ride here---while the once almighty US currency crashes and America becomes the laughingstock of the Globe.

Missionaries tell me these people often leave their family behind----and start a new one in the US.

Related (from NumbersUSA):
EVANGELICALS: Your Leaders Endorsed Mass Amnesty Today
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-173870-.html

I just called the NAE and the man/clergy I spoke to said they do not support Amnesty and we can down load a copy of what they did agree to...

WWW.NAE.net

Originally Posted by CindyB

Do they also endorse theft, coveting, lying and cheating? What a bunch of hypocrites.

Don't forget pedophilia too...

Kathyet

I called and left a message similar to CindyB's comments, regarding theft, coveting, lying. It is about numbers, both people and dollars.

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