Let’s End Tax-Free Status Of Churches That Defy Federal Immigration Laws
Posted by Bernard Thursday November 8, 2007 at 1:46 pm

The Catholic Church, which has been unconscionably derelect in protecting its parishioners from pedophile priests, is falling all over itself to preserve what has been significant growth in its parishioner base owing to the illegal alien invasion from Mexico and other predominantly Catholic Latin and South American countries. Prominent in lobbying for amnesty-laden comprehensive immigration reform has been the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Singular in his determination to thwart federal immigration law has been the controversial head of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, Cardinal Roger Mahony ( http://www.cardinalrating.com/cardinal_ ... e_5765.htm ).

Now we have Bishop James Slattery of Oklahoma ( http://www.americanchronicle.com/articl ... cleID=5152 ) http://www.fox23.com/news/local/story.a ... 285f11f8cc ) taking a page out of Cardinal Mahony’s book, determined as he is to provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants in the wake of the implementation of House Bill 1804, which requires legal documentation for any immigrant to live or work in the state of Oklahoma.

This from Fox News 23.com:

Priests are pledging to go to jail if that’s what it takes to protect illegal immigrants from the immigration crackdown.

Last Thursday House Bill 1804 went into effect, requiring legal documentation for any immigrant to live or work in the state.

About half of the Eastern Oklahoma Catholic Diocese is Hispanic, that’s about 60,000 Catholic parishioners.

Bishop James Slattery tells FOX23 News it doesn’t matter how many are legal or illegal, he doesn’t know because the church doesn’t ask. He says the Catholic Church will help protect all of them from the new law.

Bishop Slattery and others of his ilk, such as Cardinal Mahony, ought to be charged with sedition. Furthermore, Catholic parishes and/or dioceses which knowingly harbor illegal aliens should lose their tax-free status.

NOTE: In the interest of full disclosure, the author of this blog post is a Catholic.
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