Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com) Tuesday, August 27, 2013

An ad hoc coalition of evangelical leaders and private citizens disagree with the contention of a pro-amnesty evangelical group that a majority of evangelicals support amnesty for illegal aliens.

Recently representatives of the Evangelical Immigration Table responded to accusations that their group is a movement of leaders without followers.

The Christian Post reports that the argument that the EIT is mostly a "grasstops" rather than a "grassroots" movement recently came in published columns from evangelical author Jonathan Merritt and Institute on Religion and Democracy President Mark Tooley.

But EIT member Barrett Duke, a vice-president at the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission , says that evangelicals who don't support the pro-amnesty position "are clearly a minority."

Kelly Kullberg is president of Christians for a Sustainable Economy and a spokeswoman for Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration. She says polls consistently show that 70 percent of the American people across various faith and ethnic groups oppose amnesty.

Kullberg told OneNewsNow: "The Pulse Opinion poll, which is a derivative of Rasmussen and very credible, shows that 70 percent of Americans including evangelicals of various ethnicities do not favor an influx of foreign labor…”

And Kullberg disputes the EIT's claim that its sources of funding "are primarily conservative,” pointing out that atheist billionaire George Soros is involved.

"And the answer is in the IRS 990,” says Kullberg. “It's the Open Society Institute. That's Soros.org on the web.”

She further explains that Soros is not the only funder but says he a “major funder” of the pool of money that began the Evangelical Immigration Table to promote the amnesty bill.

Most Americans want real border security, not the massive amnesty promised in the “Gang of Eight” bill, she says.

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