Did you know that it is the consensus among religious leaders that the way to solve the problem of illegal immigration is to make more visas available to the illegals, hence, automatically turning them into legal immigrants? The numbers of immigrants, legal and illegal, now flooding the country, and their impact on American employment, is of no consequence to most of the religious leadership. However, such matters do concern the members of their congregations.
The survey was conducted among Catholics, mainline Protestants, "born again" Protestants, and Jews. Read the report to learn how the percentages break down between religious leaders and church members on issues such as desire for more immigrants, displacement of American workers by immigrants, pathway to citizenship, and the role of law enforcement.
CIS reports: "Most parishioners and congregants prefer more enforcement to cause illegal workers to go home, rather than legalization of illegal immigrants, which most religious leaders prefer. ... Most parishioners believe that enforcing the law and improving the wages and working conditions of unskilled workers to attract more Americans is the best way to deal with illegal immigration."
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4 comments:
Thanks for posting this. It's strange that the leaders of Christians and the Christians themselves hold such divergent views (and the same goes, to a lesser extent, for Jews and their leaders). And I bet we'd find a similar disparity on any relatively recent addition to the leftist agenda.
I wonder if this is because the leaders and the laymen aren't really following the same faith. Going beyond immigration for instance, most liberal leaders of all religions seem to resemble one another more closely than any of them resembles their respective flocks. Sometimes, it almost looks like Liberalism is their real religion, and "Christianity," "Judaism," "Hinduism", etc. are just the names of their denominations, no more different from one another than Methodism from Presbyterianism.
Bartholomew wrote:
Sometimes, it almost looks like Liberalism is their real religion, and "Christianity," "Judaism," "Hinduism", etc. are just the names of their denominations, no more different from one another than Methodism from Presbyterianism.
Yes, I don't think there's any doubt that liberalism is a form of religion. When you are determined to believe in that which cannot be substantiated, I think you've entered the realm of religious belief.
I blame the welfare state more than the "illegal".
I think it's two things at issue:
#1. Christian leaders want to reach more people for Christ, they see the influx of illegals as a new group to reach. I dont know about this angle, because alot of the illegals are catholic or protestant already.
#2. They feel like they're doing the illegals a favor in supporting their cause. I can understand this but a better way to do this is to question the American Welfare State (AWS) in its entirety.
The machinations of AWS has put the American worker at a severe disadvantage in the marketplace while simultaneously depressing the economies of these Latin nations, causing this problem.
Criticizing the AWS in its entirety will bring untold wrath, mostly from other Statist Christians and Christian leaders. It would be similar to the Jeremiah Wright outrage, when he rightly criticized the Warfare State.
But such is the case when confronting idolatry.
Luke Fisher wrote:
"I dont know about this angle, because alot of the illegals are catholic or protestant already."
All the more reason for a clergyman to want these newcomers to find a berth in his church. Do you know the statistics of the dying Catholic churches? And quite a few Protestant ones have folded, too. It's not about conversion. It's about corralling more of their own kind.
They feel like they're doing the illegals a favor in supporting their cause.
Yes, I believe that a lot of this clergy, and others too, are interpreting their universal, "catholic" view of Christianity. There is no separation, no divisions -- God made all as one, etc. Hence, there are no borders.
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