I told you about the National Association of Evangelicals coming out in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens the other day, so there isn’t much new in this story from the Washington Times on Friday entitled “Evangelicals rally behind immigrants” except for one telling line. This is how the article begins:
“Jesus was a refugee,” said Leith Anderson, director of the National Association of Evangelicals, who, along with other evangelical leaders, advocated a pro-immigration stance at an Oct. 8 Capitol Hill press conference. They issued a resolution formulated from a faith-based perspective.
Mr. Anderson also presented the organization’s support of comprehensive immigration reform later that day at a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, border security and citizenship.
U.S. immigration policies are antiquated, laden with red tape and in need of a human rights approach to reform, the evangelicals said.
Their amnesty approach drew detractors.
“By the grace of God, each American benefits from membership in one of the most just, merciful and righteous bodies politic that has ever existed,” said James R. Edwards Jr., a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. “But just because the United States stands in the world as a beacon of liberty and justice doesn’t mean anybody who wants to come live in this nation can do so by their own will. Yet some 12 million or so people whose civic membership belongs to some other nation have forced themselves upon this nation.”
Thanks to the Center for Immigration Studies fellow for adding some sense to this. But, as you read the article notice that the Evangelical leaders never concern themselves with the rights of poor Americans (for jobs and government help), it is all about the immigrant. That’s because in my opinion, this isn’t about helping the poor, it’s about politics and the goals of the Radical leftists and Marxists whose influence has taken over the leadership of not just the Evangelicals who make up the NAE, but major Catholic and Jewish denominational groups as well.
This is the telling line in this story:
The recent evangelical involvement marks the growing interfaith voice in the immigration debate, which the Center for American Progress has called “a sweeping grass-roots movement.”
So, the Center for American Progress (CAP) is involved in helping this “sweeping grass-roots movement.” We’ve told you about the ‘think-tank’ before. It is run by John Podesta, the radical leftwinger who ran the Clinton White House and Obama’s transition team. Earlier this year, the Center for American Progress advocated bringing 100,000 Iraqis to the US in an airlift, here. If you’ve followed the rise and fall (not really a fall) of Obama’s green jobs czar, Van Jones, CAP is where Jones came from and where he returned to. You get my drift.
An aside:
Years ago, in the early ’90’s, I had an occasion to do some research on an initiative that came out of Leftwing foundations, specifically that time Pew Charitable Trusts, to “green the churches.” These organizers were not religious people, in fact some were virtual atheists, but they understood that to get to large numbers of Americans they needed to ‘change’ the churches and they set out to create programs to reach churches with an environmental message knowing that people of faith would be concerned for protecting the Earth that God had created. They succeeded as we see today in “greening the churches” and that is why you see so much “environmental” political rhetoric spewing forth from religious leaders today. Just google “greening of the churches” and you’ll see what I mean. This is just one recent article in Sojourners magazine, a magazine for the progressive social justice movement, to make my point.
If you think about it, most “environmental” concern is directed at reducing private property rights, THE cornerstone of capitalism. You will see what I mean, here,* in this article Janet sent this morning about the United Nations using biodiversity claims to begin controlling land and resources.
Back to immigration. So, just as there was a concerted effort by Radicals and Marxists to reach churches on environmental issues, I suspect there was a plan to reach them on immigration as well.
I’ve told you my theory before. This is about a one world government and people like Podesta are in it up to their eyeballs. You can tell me I’m a tinfoil hat wearer, it doesn’t matter. They need immigrants, they need to literally mix up the people of the world, to break down borders, and that is why they don’t give a damn about Americans who are hurt by the immigrant tide. Those poor (lower class!) people are expendable, just as Mao mowed down millions to bring revolution to China, so too do they effectively mow down Americans by flooding America with demanding poor and angry immigrants.
Remember Saul Alinsky, the granddaddy of community organizing, says you need to create “chaos” to bring “change,” and in order to bring “chaos” you need a war of “have-nots” against “haves.” But, also for you in the “religious left,” don’t forget who Alinsky dedicated his book, ‘Rules for Radicals,’ to—Lucifer.
* Notice in this article the role the Natural Resources Defense Council plays in stopping resource use, like the California water issue. The President of NRDC is a member of the board of the Apollo Alliance, here. It is a tangled web, LOL, an understatement indeed!