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Easter Question: Which Church Is The Top Treason Lobbyist?

Cross posted to "Bloggin on down the Rogue"

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Easter Question: Which Church Is The Top Treason Lobbyist?

By Joe Guzzardi

No matter which church you may attend on Easter Sunday, you stand a high probability of hearing a plea for "justice for immigrants"that?s a given. And you?ll also be called upon from the pulpit to, against all logic, embrace more immigration.

[ed: My parish has a Vietnamese priest. He never once said a word that could even be misinterpreted towards immigration. He was a LEGAL immigrant before he entered the seminary here in the USA.]

Accordingly, earlier this week I set out to determine which major religious denomination, pound for pound, has the worst pro-immigration record?members of the Treason Lobby, as we call it here at VDARE.COM. I limited my search to Roman Catholic as well as the Lutheran and Methodist Churches.

My secondary task was to find an official who represents one of those religions but who is also an immigration realist.

The Roman Catholic Church

For pro-alien lobbying, the Catholic church (in which I was raised) is by far the most the most visible and notorious of the three. And well it should be, with a flock of 68 million members. That total represents nearly 25 percent of the world?s Catholic population.

From the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, Catholic immigration pandering has been non-stop for years. Even the relatively recent pedophilia scandals have barely slowed down Catholic immigration enthusiasm.

Over the last five years, Catholic Cardinals?most prominently Roger Cardinal Mahony, the Archbishop of Los Angeles?have urged support for amnesty and have argued passionately against immigration enforcement legislation.

Going one-step further to prove that no statement or action endorsing immigration is too outrageous, Mahony advocates violating federal law when and if enforcement measures are ever passed.

VDARE.COM writers have criticized Mahony with increasing disgust as his advocacy for illegal immigrants has intensified and his involvement in the pedophilia cover-ups have become more obvious.

But Mahony is far from the only Catholic Cardinal voice for aliens.

On the opposite coast, New York?s Cardinal Edward M Egan was out front and center (speaking Spanish, no less) at the Immigrant Workers? Freedom Ride, an even orchestrated five years ago and organized by dozens of open borders subversives who predicted?100 percent incorrectly?that it would pressure Congress into passing an amnesty.

Other urgent issues like the New York diocese?s financial crisis have not distracted Egan, 75, from his illegal alien fanaticism.[ At 75, A Battle Tested but Unwavering Cardinal, By Michael Powell, New York Times, April 23, 2007]

The Methodists

Numbering about 15 million, about a quarter of the Catholic flock, they’re fewer but equally determined.

In 2006, VDARE.COM contributor W. James Antle, III exposed the Methodists and their "Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors" policy, a transparent, feel-good slogan that can be condensed to "Open Borders."

Including their "Global Ministries ", "Justice for Our Neighbors " and "Hope for Newcomers " programs, the Methodists? commitment to mass immigration is impressive to many?but not to us.

The Lutherans

They don?t have as much muscle (only 8 million members) as either the Catholics or the Methodists, but they?re tireless fighters, especially on behalf of ?refugees?. Our Thomas Allen has written extensively about the refugee racket here.

The Lutherans always have a new wrinkle. The latest is its New Sanctuary Movement described as "a national immigrants' rights initiative by conscientious congregations responding to unjust deportations?" and a force that "?addresses the legal liabilities of providing sanctuary to undocumented immigrants."

"Troubling" state and local laws aimed at immigration enforcement concern the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. To assist in law breaking, the LIRS has prepared a backgrounder, acknowledging and thanking "the National Immigration Forum, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Council of La Raza, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Immigration Law Center for sharing their resources."

I got a close look at the LIRS?s influence when I researched my column on the Somali Bantu invasion of tiny Cayce, South Carolina.

The local Lutheran coordinator for the Somalis, Rev. Richard Robinson, called the Bantus? arrival "a blessing," even though few Cayce non-Lutherans agreed with him.

How much of a "blessing" LIRS-sponsored immigration may be depends on who you ask.

In 2004, James Fulford in his column linked the Lutherans, claiming to be "glorifying God?s name" and that "the love of God is in our hearts," to slavery and rape .[James Fulford writes: The actual acts of slavery and rape were, of course, committed by Albanian Gypsies?Lutherans aren't into that sort of thing .]

Comparing their relatively small numbers versus their influence on immigration policy in general and refugees in particular, I therefore announce my "pound for pound" top Treason Lobbyist...

THE LUTHERANS!

Battling individuals and organizations that allegedly follow the Bible?s word while doing "God?s work" is challenging. They purport to be on the high road while we the "nativists ," according to them, reject the Lord?s message.

But the Catholics, Methodists and Lutherans have distorted the truth to serve their own specific agenda?mainly money and more people in the pews.

The religious arguments center on how people of faith should treat the "sojourner," the catchall word they incorrectly use to represent today?s immigrants.

To learn more about their imprecise use of the Bible and its language?"the sojourner"?to beat back immigration reform patriots, I contacted Ed Childress, an ordained United Methodist elder and director of the Homeless Programs of Fauquier County, Virginia. I had worked with Childress when he was Deputy Director of NumbersUSA.

Childress (e-mail him) told me:

"I would emphasize again and again that ?sojourner? was a specific word for temporary wanderer, not meant to include immigrants. And the context of Biblical times, when ?sojourner? was used, was very different than today?s context. It?s appropriate that the citizens of a nation exercise oversight and stewardship of their national resources?and that includes their border."

Several years ago, Childress wrote an article for the Social Contract that included a five-point program on how to faithfully follow the Bible?s "true prescriptions" as they may relate to immigration. [The Sojourner Argument?Churches and Immigration, By Ed Childress, Social Contract, Spring 2001]

They are:

• Foreigners in this country should be accorded the respect and decency we owe to all people.

• People who are genuine refugees and cannot be cared for in proximity to their homes might be temporarily relocated to other countries. The U.S. would accept its fair share until they can safely return. Their temporary stay makes it possible for other refugees to "sojourn" here when necessary.

• Our ethic of caring requires we do what is necessary to help legal immigrants and legal residents to assimilate and function in U.S. society.

• Our ethic of caring requires that we not accept such a large number of annual immigrants that 1) Undermines the ability of workers to earn a decent living, 2) Harms the sustainability of the environment, and 3) Drains the best and brightest from their own nations where they can do the most good.

• We move away from an "America the Best" attitude and respect the future aspirations and identity of other nations.

The willingness?even eagerness?of the major religions to twist the Bible?s meaning shows that they, and not we, are the true immigration extremists.

Joe Guzzardi [ e-mail him] is the Editor of VDARE.COM Letters to the Editor. In addition, he is an English teacher at the Lodi Adult School and has been writing a weekly newspaper column since 1988. This column is exclusive to VDARE.COM.

[ed: cross posted by permission from Joe Guzzardi]

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McCain constituent holed up in Chicago church

cross posted from Bloggin on down the Rogue

Hey Little Johnny McCain, one of your illegal alien constituents really needs a little morale boost from you. She is hiding out at a church in Chicago and would really like to have you come pander to her. She is afraid that the government is going to make an example of her like the Arellano puta. She could afford the fee for a 'coyote' to come here but says she couldn't afford to feed her teenage children? Where is the father? What work did she do there? Work on a street corner or in a brothel? She wants family reunification... deport her!

Yahoo News... no permalink because Yahoo links are crap.

Church harbors woman facing deportation

By MICHAEL TARM, AP Writer

CHICAGO - A Mexican woman says she is "picking up the torch" from another illegal resident who became a symbol for immigration reform when she took shelter in a Chicago church for a year before being deported.

Flor Crisostomo, 28, who paid a smuggler to drive her across the U.S. border in 2000, spurned a deportation order Monday and moved into Adalberto United Methodist Church. [She didnt have the money to feed her kids but sure managed to scrape together the fee for the coyote. I wonder if she paid on her back. Three kids and no husband.]

Crisostomo hopes her actions send a message similar to Elvira Arellano, who became a beacon of hope for millions of illegal immigrants and a lightning rod for those who saw her brazen refusal to leave the U.S. as proof of lax enforcement.

Arellano lived in an apartment on the church's upper floor for a year before leaving in August to visit Los Angeles, where immigration authorities arrested her and, within hours, deported her to Mexico.

Adalberto's pastor said no one pressured Crisostomo to take sanctuary at the church, which is in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood.

"It's unfortunate we have to do this. This church has other priorities, like helping the poor in this neighborhood," the Rev. Walter Coleman said. "But God didn't give us a choice. When God says do this, we say, 'Yes, sir!'"

Coleman complained that the push for immigration reform has stalled, saying even sympathetic politicians have put the sensitive issue on the back burner.

"So what are we supposed to do?" he said. "Who's moving this movement forward? It's not moving forward."

Crisostomo, who spoke through a translator, said she left Iguala Guerrero, Mexico, after she was unable to find a job that would allow her to buy enough food for her two boys and one girl, ages 9 to 14.

In July 2000 she paid a smuggler to take her across the border and spent three days lost in desert-like conditions before making it to Los Angeles, she said. A month later she arrived in Chicago, where she worked 10 hours a day, six days a week in an IFCO Systems site that made packing materials.

By last year, she earned about $360 a week, sending $300 to her children for food, clothes and school books, she said. To keep her own costs down, she lived with four other women in a two-bedroom Chicago apartment.

"My children's lives improve a lot as a result," she said. "It wasn't luxury. But it meant they could survive."

Immigration authorities raided more than 40 IFCO sites in the U.S. in 2006 and arrested Crisostomo, along with more than 1,100 other people. The Board of Immigration Appeals last year denied Crisostomo's appeal and told her to leave the United States by Monday.

Crisostomo said she didn't know how long she would stay in the church, adding that she would keep busy by lobbying via phone, e-mails and letters on behalf of millions of illegal immigrants. The apartment, which is maintained by the church, includes a bedroom, office area and living room.

Groups opposed to illegal immigration say the case is a direct challenge to federal authorities.

"It will give American citizens a great opportunity to see if Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is good at his word on strict immigration enforcement," said Rosanna Pulido, a spokeswoman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates tougher immigration enforcement.

The move to re-create the same sanctuary situation as Arellano will backfire, Pulido said.

"This tactic is ineffective," she said. "This is creating more outrage, more bad feelings toward our government and toward people who are aiding and abetting illegals."

The judicial process had given Crisostomo more than enough time to comply with U.S. law following her arrest two years ago, the Chicago office of the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement Monday.

"If Ms. Crisostomo does not comply with the immigration judge's order by tonight, she will become an immigration fugitive," the statement said.

But Crisostomo said she believes immigration authorities would not dare storm a house of worship to grab her.

"I hope they don't come for me," she said. "I hope they fear God enough."

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That is not the problem. Bush doesn't have the balls or the will to deport her. He will probably issue a presidential clemency order for her as he makes his escape of the White House enroute to his 100,000 acre estate in Paraguay.

[updated to correct the links to images]

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2007 - The Amnesty Year In Review

2007 was the year when a powerfull axis of organizations joined to try to force amnesty on the citizens of the USA.

Cross posted from the Cox Newspaper 2007 Archives

Groups Join Forces on Immigration

By Eunice Moscoso | Thursday, January 18, 2007, 02:17 PM

Groups lobbying for changes in the nation?s immigration laws, including a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, have dubbed themselves the ?Alliance for Immigration Reform? 2007.? [aka "The Amnesty AXIS", "The AXIS of Evil", or just "The AXIS"]

The organizations, which announced their new name Thursday in a conference call with reporters, include the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights group; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; the Service Employees International Union; the National Immigration Forum; and the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank based in New York.

?This is the year to get this done,? said Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. ?Everybody, no matter who they are, is sick of the illegality and the porous borders. Businesses are tired of lying to the government and having to break the law just to get the work done. Latinos want to see their friends and family able to work with dignity. And soccer moms and dads want to see Congress solve something.?

Bruce Josten, executive vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said he expected President Bush to address immigration in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.

?I have absolutley no doubt that he will raise this issue and he will press and stay on the message he has been on since a candidate for this office for a comprehensive solution to immigration,? Josten said.

White House spokesman Tony Snow confirmed the topic.

The speech ?will address major issues, including the war on terror, energy, health care, immigration, and education,? he told reporters Thursday.

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The AXIS: Despite the backing of the US Chamber of Commerce, the Bishops, Arch Bishops, and Cardinals of the American Catholic Church, Big Union (AFL-CIO represented by SEI), a putatively conservative think tank (Manhattan Institute), El Presidente Bush, the DNC including all but a bare handfull of Democrat senators, approximately half of the GOP senators (including Frist, the GOP senate majority leader), MoveOnKoSoroStryker (arguably this IS the true leadership of the DNC politburo), and the MSM which is always sympathetic to socialist/leftist causes, but especially for amnesty...

The Patriots: Patriotic Citizens of all political persuasions joined together to turn back the AXIS attempt to dissolve our national sovereignty that would have effectively thrown open our borders to tens of millions of newly arriving illegal aliens.

The amnesty attempts were formulated in secret with no involvement in legisltaive committees. La Raza and other amnesty pimps were allowed to give input as to the content of the first bill (S.1348) to be taken directly to the senate floor, where The AXIS thought they had enough votes to force it through.

A very smug George Bush: "I'll see you at the signing!"

Can you imagine the expression on the face of El Presidente Bush when he found out that The PATRIOTS had been flooding their senators and congressmens phones, faxes, and emails with demands that this bad legislation be defeated... and it was.

The AXIS made another stealth attempt with a renumbered amnesty package (S.1639). They tried a tactic of making the legislators unavailable except through special hotlines to allow illegal aliens to call in, excluding The PATRIOTS. These numbers were made public and citizens started using them too. Once again, The Patriots prevailed over The AXIS.

The midterm elections in 2007 was a turning point. It turned the senate and house over to Democrats. The new majority was made possible by new Democrat candidates who ran on platforms that were, in most cases, more conservative than their opponents. Time will tell if this is true.

The AXIS was not through with their attempts though. Instead of the comprehensive, big package approach, they shifted gears and now are using the incremental approach of attaching small items to other unrelated legislation to slip it to us a little at a time. The DREAM act was such a piece of legislation.

The AXIS had one victory in December of 2007. The managed to defund and kill the border fence that was authorized in 2006. This is a reason that patriotic citizens must stand together.

[The "death by a thousand cuts" analogy has been made as relates to the slow infiltration, occupation, and take over of our southwestern states without a shot being fired except by criminal gangs of illegals. El Presidente Bush has no intention of enforcing immigration law strenuously during his tenure, so this will fall to whoever is elected as the next president. By that time it may be necessary to use military units to clean out and retake our territory from the occupying hoard while guarding the border against military incursions from the south.]

See: I am an American Citizen

Here is the page about the private hotlines for illegals to use to call in: Bush Listening

The Bush scandal that the MSM refused to cover, because it was a willing participant, is known as Bordergate. The MSM tried to fabricate out of whole air various things to use as a scandal for Bush, such as manufactured military records by CBS/Damn Rather, when they had everything they need, if they had not been so heavily involved themselves, via their political allegiance to the socialist Democrats who are also primo amnesty panderers.

In December 2007, Michigan AG Mike Cox issued his opinion (weight of law unless successfully challenged in court) that illegal aliens may not be issued Michigan drivers licenses, a reversal of the opinion of the Democrat former AG Frank Kelley.

Independent Democrat and amnesty co-conspirator Senator Joe Lieberman endorsed John McCain for president.

Bush pardoned and commuted sentences of 105 criminals (fraud, robbery, drug smuggling, forgery, counterfeiting, car theft, income tax evasion, military AWOL, moonshining and bootlegging (illegal liquor), theft of US mail, illegal weapons) and no pardons or commutations for Ramos, Compean, or any of the other law men who were railroaded into prison by his pet prosecutor, Johnny Sutton. George did spring Scooter libby (commuted not pardoned).

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Catholic Publications Advocating Amnesty

'Don't fence me out'

http://www.catholic.org/views/views_news.php?id=18228&pid=3

1/8/2006

Our Sunday Visitor (www.osv.com)

No one seems to doubt that our country's immigration laws are in desperate need of reform. With more than 11 million undocumented people presently residing in the United States and vigilante groups setting up along the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to stem the tide of illegal aliens, it is evident the present system isn't working to anyone's satisfaction.

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OSV used to be a great little publication we picked up after mass to read. Our parish no longer carries it. I see that it has become another organ of the marxist Christian heresy if the article cross posted from www.catholic.org is any indicator. Hmmm... I just did a lookabout at osv.com and with the exception of one or two publications, everything looks like I would expect a publisher site of Catholic Church material. I guess I will have to take a closer look.

I have serious doubts that our laws are in need of reform. Our laws are in need of enforcement and out presidency and thesenate is in need of reform. We have entirely too many belly crawling, boot licking panderers in the senate and White House. I eagerly look forward to the day that El Presidente Jorge bush leaves the White House for his 100,000 acre spread in Paraguay. Then maybe we can put someone in there that will enforce immigration laws and see that a fence or wall is built on the border. We will never really be secure until Bush is out of office.

also see:

http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/

http://www.catholic-pages.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=10508

http://www.calcatholic. com/news /newsArticle.aspx?id =1388aa77-8bc0-4 c7b-a123-bc3 1b38633c9

http://www.usccbpublishing. org/showproducts. cfm?FullCat= 160&step=1

Leftists preaching amnesty from the pulpit

I have been commenting and railing against the preaching of amnesty from the altars, pulpits, and podiums of many mainstream religions here in the USA and it seems to have finally caught attention of some people! Hallelujah! There is a new blogroll out there that I just posted about the Leftist Christian Heresy. Check out each of these fine blogs as you have the chance to do some extracurricular reading. The Blogroll is Christians Against Leftist Heresy and can also be viewed here at my blog in the right side panel with the other blogrolls..

Social Justice, born of Marxist Liberation Theology, promotes the view that Jesus was a revolutionary leader and any revolution by an oppressed people against the established order is considered a Christian duty. This seems to be where some of the evangelical conservatives and the candidates they support are coming from. Sam Brownback is a staunch supporter of illegal aliens and his ideology seems to stem from MLT. Go look at any of the Brownback support pages and blogs. They all gush for Sam and his compassionate support of illegals. Well maybe not as much now that he is trailing FAR FAR back in the standings. Sam is trying to conceal his leanings until after the election. We also have some candidates in the hunt that are at best heathens though at least one was raised a Roman Catholic but is a serial philanderer. It has become accepted to have at least one divorce included in your political pedigree now.

Check out the blogroll

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