 masbury says: Spanish-language interpreter and professor tells of immigrants arrested in the massive raids in Postville, IA, and how they did not understand the criminal charges they faced When they broke the law to come here (and I am quite certain they knew they were breaking the law) they knew this might happen. Give me your tired, your poor, your hungry.... If we keep this up. We will eventually go back to slave trade. And I think that is what the Republicans want. SS, I hope you are not so cruel as to maintain that if it came down to feeding your family or breaking a law that will soon be changed, you would keep the law. I wonder if you prefer legality over mercy. God is to punish this country so filled with contradictions! this could have been avoided we could of granted them passports if we were merciful. I would keep the law. What good would it be to teach my children about law, integrity or character if when things got tough none of those things matter. Are you trying to say that all these people who came here were starving to death. Does that mean that all those they left behind are now dead? In that case, open the borders. There can't be anyone left to immigrate. And what is this about it being ok to break laws that, in your opinion, "they are going to change soon". Even if they did change the law tomorrow those who broke the law today would still be criminals And yes, CP, we want slave trade. LEt us start with enslaving liberals. Oh, wait, they aren't very good workers. A... SS, I think you are far from Jesus on this one. Matthew's gospel is a story of Jesus breaking the laws of his nation again and again and again when the laws result in human suffering. He is furious with the Pharisees - who largely took pride in their own legal behavior, assuming God would be pleased by it - for insisting that keeping the laws was more important than caring for wounded people. Indeed, we are to respect law when no one is victimized by it. But if our faith is called Christian because it is like Jesus, we'll be putting loving people ahead of being legal, as he did. And the ultra-conservatives of his day hated him for it. Possibly in other times the US government would have looked at them in a more humanitarian light... |
View the Top Clips from July 14, 2008
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
|
||
|
|
|||
