Liberal Church Elites Attack Backers of New Arizona Immigration Law

"Liberal Church Elites Attack Backers of New Arizona Immigration Law (emphasis mine)...

...'Instead of thoughtfully critiquing the law, these religious elites instead disparage the law's supporters.' -- Mark Tooley, IRD President...

Washington, April 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- Calling attempts by state and local authorities to address illegal immigration "misguided and divisive," liberal religious elites are slamming the supporters of a new immigration enforcement law in Arizona...

...IRD President Mark Tooley commented:

"Instead of thoughtfully critiquing the law, these religious elites instead disparage the law's supporters.

"If they bothered to survey members of their own churches, religious officials would discover a wide spectrum of belief about immigration policy with many thoughtful and legitimate concerns. Instead, some church elites would rather condescendingly lecture down to those they caricature as advocating 'fear and hatred'.

"These church leaders are unclear, or unconcerned, about how liberalized immigration and eventual amnesty might affect America's unemployed, legal immigrants, law enforcement, or how a virtually open border only undermines attempts at economic and political reforms south of America's borders.

"Traditional Christian and Jewish teaching does not specifically offer an immigration policy for nations.

"Divine commands for fairness and justice do not automatically equal liberalized immigration, any more than they equate to socialized medicine, global warming alarmism, or American disarmament." Full text:  Liberal Church Elites Attack Backers of New Arizona Immigration Law

Response to comment [from a "Christian"]:  "The law does essentially allow for racial profiling..."

They've already made some revisions. Keep up feather problem.  Church Elites Attack Backers of New Arizona Immigration Law

"Those 'liberal church leaders' are right."

When you get your theology from a box of Fruit Loops, of course they are.

Liberal Church Elites Attack Backers of New Arizona Immigration Law