AP - "Los Angeles cardinal: Nazism in Arizona immigration bill"

[TomCADem]

If a Catholic priest condemns a Democrat over abortion, the story generates headlines. However, if a CARDINAL condemns the laws as a form of fascism, the quote gets ignored by the major media.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jBbaacHSTfwQFWSi7VYGq2utcS_gD9F6VRFO0

LOS ANGELES — The head of the nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese has condemned a proposed Arizona crackdown on illegal immigrants, saying it encourages people to turn on each other in Nazi- and Soviet-style repression.

The measure wrongly assumes that Arizonans "will now shift their total attention to guessing which Latino-looking or foreign-looking person may or may not have proper documents," Cardinal Roger Mahony said in his blog Sunday — a day before Arizona's Legislature sent the immigration enforcement measure to the Republican governor.

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Arizona has an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants. Proponents of the bill say it was prompted by concerns over the cost of providing services to illegal immigrants and by the slaying of an Arizona rancher near the Mexican border this month. Authorities believe he was fatally shot by an illegal immigrant possibly connected to a drug smuggling cartel.

Republican Arizona Sen. Russell Pearce, who sponsored the bill, has said it will take handcuffs off police and put them on violent criminals.

But Mahony, whose archdiocese has a huge Hispanic immigrant population, said the Arizona Legislature was passing "the country's most retrogressive, mean-spirited, and useless anti-immigrant law."

Similar laws that were previously passed in other states have been repealed or struck down in the courts, he said.

"The tragedy of the law is its totally flawed reasoning: that immigrants come to our country to rob, plunder, and consume public resources," Mahony said.

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1. this guy has no creds to criticize anybody for anything really nt

[TomCADem]

4. MSM - Catholic Priests Have Great Cred To Criticize Democrats

Heck, they were featured front and center on Health Care Reform. But, when the issue is a pet issue of conservatives, the Catholic Church is suddenly ignored.

Coincidence?

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2. And here's a bet... it will engender some hostile replies, and unrecs.

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3. Clearly, I was one post too late with a prediction.

What I wish I could do is to recommend this thread for every blind critical comment it receives.

[fishwax]

5. well, he's right on this issue

[SargeUNN]

6. I agree with him on this one even though

I think his church is headed up by a filthy stinking and horrible pope, I will give credit to a little moment of decency by this person.

[CoffeeCat]

7. It's really too bad...

...that the Church barely has any credibility left. We need
religious leaders to speak out against social injustice, such
as what is happening in Arizona.

He is right too and someone needed to compare the AZ laws to
Nazism--because that's exactly what it is.

It's really too bad that the Church had to enable so many
pedophiles, create so many child victims and engage in the
massive cover-up and continued whitewash of today.

The cardinals and the other church hierarchy can't be taken
seriously when they speak about harm against others. People
roll their eyes now.