Thread: SBC's decision 'amnesty' by another name

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow

SBC's decision 'amnesty' by another name

An immigration reform organization says Southern Baptists, like any other religious denomination, have an obligation to respect the laws of the land when it comes to who has the right to live in the U.S.

At its annual convention in Phoenix, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution advocating a path to legal status for people are in the U.S. illegally. It also called on Southern Baptists to reject bigotry and to minister to all people, regardless of immigration status.
http://onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=1372366

BC spokesman Paul Jimenez said the main reason for the resolution was the desire to spread the gospel to immigrants. Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), reacts to the SBC's resolution.
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"Nobody is asking the Southern Baptists or any other church to enforce laws or to treat people without proper respect," he offers, "but they also have to respect the fact that the United States is a sovereign nation -- and it is the government of the United States that determines immigration laws based on the needs of the country, not based on the desire of a particular church seeking religious converts."

The resolution only passed by a broad margin after language was added saying it should not be construed as an endorsement of "amnesty." Mehlman says it is a question of semantics.

"The bottom line is that we're talking about taking millions of people who violated our laws, and in the end granting them legal status," says the FAIR media director. "I think most Americans would consider that to be amnesty. Other people might prefer to use euphemisms, but the American people understand what it is."

Mehlman says observing the laws of nations has been a principle going back to the time of both the New and Old Testaments.

Source: http://onenewsnow.com/Church/Default.aspx?id=1372366

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No More Amnesty. It will only encourage even more massive waves of millions of illegal aliens to flood across the border...

Amnesty ENCOURAGES Illegal Immigration...

Originally Posted by PaulRevere9

No More Amnesty. It will only encourage even more massive waves of millions of illegal aliens to flood across the border...

Amnesty ENCOURAGES Illegal Immigration...

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We'd like to take credit for most of this ..


FYI, the three largest enablers and sponsor of illegal aliens from Mexico in the United States are:

• THE LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT(S)

• ORGANIZED RELIGION

• PUBLIC EDUCATION


The GOP Sponsors The Mexican Invasion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77JvpID0 ... ded#at=152

(make sure you rewind this to the start, it has a tendency to begin in the middle)

George W. Bush on Immigration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 16tPdgQzYk

I will be leaving the fold.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

I will be leaving the fold.

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Isn't it the other way around?

I think there will a divide in the church over this.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

I think there will a divide in the church over this.

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It will certainly separate the wheat from the chaff.

This has been going on for years, but is just now coming to the point where it can't be hidden any longer.

The Catholics and Methodists are notorious for enabling and hiding illegal aliens.


NEWSFLASH: Exclusive Video of Mike Huckabee Calling for Scholarships and In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BxJBUsw ... r_embedded

Rep. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, said she had already planned to file a bill granting instate status to the children of immigrants who live in Arkansas and have applied to state universities. "It’s nice to know we will have an ally in the governor’s office." (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 1/12/05)

Huckabee calling those of us in Arkansas who opposed illegal immigration racists was par for the course.

He went so far as to suggest that a Republican legislator wasn't a good Christian for proposing a bill to prohibit spending taxpayer money to give illegal aliens benefits, saying that he drank a different kind of "Jesus juice".

Here's the link to the full text of the January 11, 2005 speech.
http://www.stateline.org/live/details/s ... ntId=16585


Here's a link to the original bill.
ftp://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/bills/2005 ... 051453.pdf

Growing up in Raleigh NC I could never understand the Baptist mindset. Gambling was a huge no-no, people would go to another county to buy their liquor( so their neighbors wouldn't see them in the Liquor Store I guess), dancing was frowned upon, Lottery? OMG not that! When I came of age we had to "brown bag" to clubs... liquor by the drink? NO WAY!

But by God, those strip clubs on every corner seemed to be just fine. I never could get anyone to explain to me why everything else was a sin, but going to a strip club was perfectly acceptable. For the men anyway...

Originally Posted by nomas

Growing up in Raleigh NC I could never understand the Baptist mindset. Gambling was a huge no-no, people would go to another county to buy their liquor( so their neighbors wouldn't see them in the Liquor Store I guess), dancing was frowned upon, Lottery? OMG not that! When I came of age we had to "brown bag" to clubs... liquor by the drink? NO WAY!

But by God, those strip clubs on every corner seemed to be just fine. I never could get anyone to explain to me why everything else was a sin, but going to a strip club was perfectly acceptable. For the men anyway...

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hypocrisy
a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue or religion

Examples of HYPOCRISY

When his private letters were made public, they revealed his hypocrisy.