Thread: Irving: Pastor disagrees with host church over immigration m

Irving: Pastor disagrees with host church over immigration meeting

12:00 AM CST on Monday, November 12, 2007
By DIANNE SOLÃ

But Good Shepherd officials balked at Mr. Portillo's plans to use their church to hold a town hall meeting with Irving city officials about issues related to immigration.

"This is a place of worship, not for politics," Art Schneewind, president of the Good Shepherd church council, said after services Sunday. "That kind of business should be at City Hall, not at church."

Finally some common sense coming from a church. Perhaps it will catch on.

But Mr. Portillo vowed that "we will not return," saying, "some people don't want us there."

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The Rev. Pedro Portillo led an outdoor service Sunday. His congregation has met for seven years at a Lutheran church, but officials don't want it used for an immigration meeting. "We are homeless, but Jesus was homeless too," the Rev. Pedro Portillo said after the services held in Spanish along South MacArthur Boulevard for the congregation of La Iglesia de Santa MarÃ*a de Guadalupe.

These people CHOSE to come here and they are NOT homeless. There home is, I presume, is in Mexico.
Churches are not home for the homeless.

Originally Posted by dyehard39

The Rev. Pedro Portillo led an outdoor service Sunday. His congregation has met for seven years at a Lutheran church, but officials don't want it used for an immigration meeting. "We are homeless, but Jesus was homeless too," the Rev. Pedro Portillo said after the services held in Spanish along South MacArthur Boulevard for the congregation of La Iglesia de Santa MarÃ*a de Guadalupe.

These people CHOSE to come here and they are NOT homeless. There home is, I presume, is in Mexico.
Churches are not home for the homeless.

And how dare they compare holding a service out in God's own creation to being homeless!

Homelessness is terrible, not having four walls and a roof for church service because you don't like a host's rules is a self-inflicted possible inconvenience.

I wonder if the weather hadn't been so wonderful here recently if they would have skipped the meeting and gone on business as usual?