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Showing Original Post only (View all)NYT Iowa story - Evangelicals hate immigrants [View all]
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/ice-raid-iowa-churches.htmlAn ICE Raid Leaves an Iowa Town Divided Along Faith Lines
The detention of 32 workers at a concrete plant opened fissures among the towns churches and secular leaders, and brought an abstract national issue painfully close to home.
By Trip Gabriel
July 3, 2018
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa In the days after immigration agents raided a dusty concrete plant on the west side of town, seizing 32 men from Mexico and Central America, the Rev. Trey Hegar, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, got into an impassioned argument on his Facebook page.
The Bible doesnt promote helping criminals!!!! a Trump supporter wrote.
Mr. Hegar answered with Leviticus: When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
The Trump supporter came back with the passage in the Gospel of Mark about rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and added for good measure: Immigration laws are good and Godly! We elected our leaders and God allowed it.
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Mr. Hegars church on Walnut Street is across from the site of Mount Pleasants most popular event, a Labor Day festival of steam-powered tractors and other farm machinery. In the days and weeks after the raid, the church became a hectic crossroads for family members of the detained men and their supporters. Parishioners in a group called Iowa Welcomes Immigrant Neighbors raised $80,000 to help detainees families pay rent, utilities and legal fees.
Other mainline Protestant churches, including the Lutherans, contributed to the fund, as did the Catholics at St. Alphonsus, where a Spanish Mass is held once a month. Notably absent from the donor roll, though, were Mount Pleasants evangelical churches.
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Evangelicals have concocted a sweet deal for themselves. If it happened, God willed it, and
Squinch
Jul 2018
#2
Good point. And they think they need to feed their god an armageddon in order for white guys
Squinch
Jul 2018
#13
"We elected our leaders and God allowed it." It sounds like they're following Satan.
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2018
#19