White Evangelicals and Religious Communities At Odds on Immigration

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-04-26-immigration-religious_x.htm

With bishops speaking out, clergy marching in the streets and parishes frequently acting as local organizing headquarters, the immigrant rights movement appears to have the full support of the USA's Christian communities.
But appearances can be deceiving. And in this case, they are.


• 64% of white evangelicals agreed with the statement "Immigrants today are a burden on our country because they take our jobs, housing and health care." That's up from 49% in December 2004.

• 56% of white Catholics agreed with the same statement, up from 44% in December 2004.

• 51% of white mainline Protestants agreed that "The growing number of newcomers from other countries threatens traditional American customs and values." In December 2004, 41% agreed.


How very Christian!

[ulysses]

1. heh.

The Rev. Sam Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, notes that Hispanics provide key support for such favorite evangelical causes as defending traditional marriage and opposing abortion. Now Hispanics expect reciprocation, he says.

They don't work that way, Sam.

[fishnfla]

2. Hypocrites, typical eom

[BOSSHOG]

3. "Threatens traditional American Values."

Actually the immigrants feed the number one value of these types of "christians." Hate. They blather on about values like bush blathers on about WMD, both are wrong. There were no WMD and "christians" have no values.

[Faryn Balyncd]

4. WWJD?

?

[Bridget Burke]

5. DU is divided. Don't the religious folks have the same right?

I've seen identical complaints posted here, in all seriousness.

I notice that whites only were queried. Some denominations include numerous non-whites, so we don't have the full story of the USA's Christian communities.