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dalton99a

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Tue Jul 3, 2018, 07:23 AM Jul 2018

NYT Iowa story - Evangelicals hate immigrants [View all]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/03/us/ice-raid-iowa-churches.html

An ICE Raid Leaves an Iowa Town Divided Along Faith Lines
The detention of 32 workers at a concrete plant opened fissures among the town’s 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 doesn’t 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 Caesar’s, and added for good measure: “Immigration laws are good and Godly! We elected our leaders and God allowed it.”

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Mr. Hegar’s church on Walnut Street is across from the site of Mount Pleasant’s 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 Pleasant’s evangelical churches.


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I guess Jesus wouldn't be welcome in Trumpland. Vinca Jul 2018 #1
"Dirty Mexican!" dalton99a Jul 2018 #3
I assume you're referencing hot, blond Jesus not the "other one." LOL. Vinca Jul 2018 #4
Dirty Nazareen. Lookin' for free handout. 3Hotdogs Jul 2018 #10
Evangelicals have concocted a sweet deal for themselves. If it happened, God willed it, and Squinch Jul 2018 #2
Are they so self-deluded, they believe their own lies? yardwork Jul 2018 #6
They are and they do. JHB Jul 2018 #9
Right? I wonder how many ever said that between 2008 and 2016 Orangepeel Jul 2018 #11
Good point. And they think they need to feed their god an armageddon in order for white guys Squinch Jul 2018 #13
and no matter what they do or did WhiteTara Jul 2018 #17
Bad Samaritans (nt) klook Jul 2018 #5
Evangelicalsim is paleotn Jul 2018 #7
Up until recently, Northern Evangelicals have enjoyed Vogon_Glory Jul 2018 #8
They've fallen off the cliff as well.... paleotn Jul 2018 #16
If they decide to mend their ways and their reputations, they may Vogon_Glory Jul 2018 #18
You can't mix religion and politics without harming both. el_bryanto Jul 2018 #12
The KKK and Christianity have always been together. rockfordfile Jul 2018 #14
Pleaser allow a slight correction The Polack MSgt Jul 2018 #15
"We elected our leaders and God allowed it." It sounds like they're following Satan. TheBlackAdder Jul 2018 #19
K&R Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2018 #20
When someone believes that 6000 years ago, GulfCoast66 Jul 2018 #21
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