Thread: Church leaders push immigration reform

Church leaders push immigration reform

By UPI Staff
United Press International
April 3, 2007

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Religious leaders from several denominations are joining the fight over granting U.S. citizenship to the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.

With lawmakers in their home states for Congress's spring break, many will receive visits from local clerics supporting a bill that creates a path to citizenship for those in the country illegally, USA Today reported.

Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, said his members will be targeting 40 U.S. House of Representatives Republicans who traditionally depend on the evangelical vote.

Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention has joined forces with U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., who is pushing immigration reform in the Senate. Land told the newspaper the nation has "a biblical mandate to act compassionately" toward "hard-working and otherwise law-abiding immigrants."

Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles said he sees the Roman Catholic Church's lobbying efforts as part of a long tradition.

"Since 1770, the Catholic Church has helped every wave of immigrants," he told USA Today.

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I think it's time they start exempting them from the tax shelters then. I don't know how far across the line they feel the church has before it's stomping on grounds that aren't theirs.

The church has chosen to ignore the law of the land for their own greedy purposes. They have sold out the same way our government has.

Stop paying them tithing and see how fast they change their minds about being pro-illegal. Afterall, religion is really nothing more than a huge corporation who is in the business of selling life after death insurance policies.

Agreed. Take away the tax exempt status and they will be singing another tune