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Clergy to Cornyn: We've got your back
By RICK CASEY
HOUSTON CHRONCLE
March 14, 2010, 6:24PM

When U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and his aides walked into Cardinal Daniel DiNardo's conference room at the Catholic Chancery one afternoon three weeks ago to talk about immigration reform, they were greeted by the archbishop, Lutheran Bishop Michael Rinehart and a dozen rabbis and clergy members from a variety of denominations.

They were also greeted by about 6,000 postcards piled in stacks on the large conference table around which the group would sit.

The men of the cloth wanted to talk to him about what they see as the biblical and moral imperative of immigration reform. But they also wanted to send a practical political message.

At a time when anger is the currency of the political realm, much of it aimed at illegal immigrants, the religious leaders were saying to Cornyn that they will have his back if he risks becoming a target of that anger by helping craft and pass comprehensive immigration reform.

The meeting and the postcards are part of a number of organized movements bubbling up around the country, a stirring that led President Barack Obama this week to hold meetings with two senators, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and some immigration activist groups to reassert his commitment to reform.

The church- and synagogue-based community organization TMO has been working with churches in the area for more than a year to educate members on the painful realities of immigration. Presentations include experts like veteran immigration attorney Charles Foster, who was working with President George W. Bush on an immigration reform law when 9/11 doomed it.

Foster is fond of explaining to people that to tell illegal immigrants to go home and get in line doesn't deal with the fact that about 10 million of them would be getting into a line that moves at a pace of 5,000 a year, many leaving citizen spouses and children here as they did so.

Cornyn told DiNardo and the other religious leaders, as he has repeatedly said in public, that it is up to Obama to make immigration reform a priority. He also noted that he had expected to hear from Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who has been working with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on crafting a bill.

At that point members of the group, who were impressed with Cornyn's grasp of immigration issues, decided to challenge him. Why should a senator from Texas be waiting on New York and South Carolina to craft a bill?

“We appealed to his Texas pride,â€

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“It's a Bible witness,â€

Clergy to Cornyn: We've got your back

and we want your Tax Exempt status ripped out from under your dirty robes

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“It's a Bible witness,â€

See
Poll: Most Christians, Jews at Odds with Their Leaders Over Illegal Immigration
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-183511.html

I certainly hope Cardinal Daniel DiNardo's vote is enough to save Cornyn's butt in the next election.

Originally Posted by bigtex

I certainly hope Cardinal Daniel DiNardo's vote is enough to save Cornyn's butt in the next election.

He is hopeful that we will forget or at least we have another of the "lesser of two evils" elections the same as the last Presidential Election and we know how well that went for his good buddy McCAMNESTY! Sort like the PECOS BILL PERRY vs. SANCTUARY CITY BILL WHITE election.

Originally Posted by Captainron

If anything that is talking about the individual wanderer----not a horde descending on us like proverbial locusts!

Yes, that passage was talking about a wanderer of the same nationality who was set upon by thiefs. In other words the Bible tells us to take care of fellow Americans whose life and property is being stolen by foreign criminals.

In Acts, Chapter 17, verses 22-34, Paul addresses the men of Athens at the Areopagus. While much of his excellent address deals with explaining God's nature, my favorite passage begins with verse 26:

"From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth, and he determined the times set for them and the EXACT PLACES WHERE THEY SHOULD LIVE." (Capitalization is mine).

Paul obviously does not support mass immigration, and it is apparent from this scripture that Mexico is the "exact" place for Mexicans, and the United States is the "exact" place for Americans. When our Mexican neighbors, back in the sixties, chose to manufacture an average of 7.4 babies per woman, even the Catholic hierarchy knew that Mexico could not support this many people. We cannot correct their demographic disaster by creating one here. Let them return to the bright sunshine of their appointed place, and learn to practice birth control like the rest of us.

Whoa! Sen. Cornyn and his aides walk into the Catholic offices for their meeting? It is usually the other way around. The Catholics are a constituency, not the other way around. This is as good as Obama bowing to kings, queens and other leaders around the world. What the crap is going on?