An open letter to any fundamentalist, bible thumping or evangelical friends I may have left:

[gopiscrap]

Please don't ever speak to me about family values again. How dare you proclaim that the republican party is the party of the family. What we have seen is the dehumanizing of the "least of these", the innocents and most vulnerable of those among us. What ever happened to "welcome the stranger"
What happened to "whatsoever you have done to the least of these, that you have done to me"
What has happened to recognizing the Christ in one another.

An excerpt from my sermon on 6-10-18

How can we not see Christ in the eyes of the hungry, fearful child clinging for dear life to a mother tightly holding her?

How can we not see Christ in the father struggling in every way possible to provide meager rations for the sustenance of his family?

How can we not see Christ in the teenager who wishes with all their hearts to have a normal childhood. To live with out need or fear?

How can we not see Christ in the grandparent who has labored their entire life for the good of their children, their community and their country, only to lose all in the flash of a bomb or the obliteration of their neighborhood?

How can we not see Christ in the man, woman, child who only long for what we long for? Human dignity, a livelihood, shelter, health care, education and most of all community?

How can we as Christians not feel called to implement the dictum: "Whatsoever you have done to the least of these, that you have done also to me"

"I was a stranger and you took me in"

Most offensive to me are the conservative "christian" non-profit agencies making a profit off of this humanitarian adminstration induced tragedy!!!

So evangelicals, fundamentalists and bible thumpers if you're going to quote scripture, please add the Matthew text to your considerations. If you want to claim you are pro life, please also consider the born in addition to the unborn. Otherwise to me, your professions of faith falls vastly short!

[Major Nikon]

1. "Family values" is and has never been anything more than a marketing strategy

Those that believe in the inherent infallibility of the bible are already weak minded enough that you just don't need that good of a strategy in the first place. It's all nothing more than smoke and mirrors designed to get the same people to buy into the Horse and Sparrow theory which hasn't worked since before the depression and never will.

[trotsky]

2. Not to say those aren't lovely sentiments...

but they will likely turn around and ask how you can't see Christ in the "unborn child" who is aborted. They sincerely believe abortion is murder, and therefore whatever might happen to an immigrant child, at least they're still alive, which means they are a better Christian than you, because they don't support the "murder" of babies.

It's stupid, it's insane, it makes no sense. Yup. That is the problem with trying to use religion to justify policy. People don't agree on what religious texts mean, and arguing about it is truly useless because "faith" will allow any believer to believe what they want.