Evangelicals and Pentecostals Demand Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

Evangelicals and Pentecostals Demand Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

Why We Are Going to Hell – Part 3,995

Conservative Protestants Condone Law-Breaking

Has the Christian Church Gone Crazy???

by Dr. Paul L. Williams

Evangelical Christians this week offered the Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and members of the U.S. Senate Immigration Reform Committee their ringing endorsement of full amnesty for the 20 to 30 million illegal aliens within the country.

Open borders and high immigration, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) proclaimed, increases membership in evangelical churches and is good for the economy.

Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, said there was no dissent among the members of his organization in ratifying a pro-amnesty resolution.

He testified that the Gospel requires that Christians be willing to forgive illegal aliens for breaking existing immigration laws and statutes.

Rev. Anderson added: “We believe that undocumented immigrants who have otherwise been law abiding members of our communities should be offered the opportunity to pay any taxes or penalties owed, and over time earn the right to become U.S. citizens and permanent residents. The process of redemption and restitution is core to Christian beliefs, as we were all once lost and redeemed through love of Jesus Christ.”

The NAE describes itself as “. . . a network of 40 denominations comprising more than 45,000 local churches located in every congressional district and every state.”

Most of the member denominations uphold a literal interpretation of scripture and intransigent support for traditional values. The list of includes:

• Anglican Mission in America
• Assemblies of God
• Brethren in Christ Church
• Christian Reformed Church in North America
• Church of God
• Church of the Nazarene
• Churches of Christ In Christian Union
• Conservative Lutheran Association
• Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches
• Evangelical Presbyterian Church
• Evangelical Free Church of America
• Fellowship of Evangelical Churches
• Free Methodist Church of North America
• General Association of General Baptist
• International Church of the Foursquare Gospel
• International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies
• International Pentecostal Church of Christ
• International Pentecostal Holiness Church
• Presbyterian Church in America
• Primitive Methodist Church USA
• Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
• The Brethren Church
• The Christian & Missionary Alliance
• The Evangelical Church
• The Salvation Army
• The Vineyard, USA
• Transformation Ministries
• United Brethren in Christ
• US Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches
• The Wesleyan Church Corporation

The position of the NAE remains incomprehensible to many conservative Christian conservatives, including Rev. Judith Schmitt of Puritan Congregation Church in Scranton, PA. “It’s outrageous for any Christian or Christian organization to condone law-breaking,” Rev. Schmitt said. “Forgiveness is central to the Christian doctrine but approval and reward of wrong-doing is not.”

Others, including conservative writer Patrick J. Buchanan, wonder why the endorsement of plans to grant full amnesty fails to create national outrage. He points out that while 25 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed, “8.5 million U.S. jobs are held by illegal aliens who broke into the country or overstayed their visas.”

Senator Schumer and other advocates for amnesty argue that illegal’s take jobs that Americans are unwilling to accept.

This argument has been laid to rest by a raid on six Swift & Co. meatpacking plants which rounded up 1,200 illegal aliens, 10 percent of the workforce. The raid failed to create any employment problems for Swift. In a matter of weeks, the plants were operating at full force – – manned by hundreds of native-born Americans who were delighted to take the jobs.

Says Vanderbilt University Professor Carol Swain, “Whenever there’s an immigration raid, you find white, black and legal immigrant labor lining up to do these jobs Americans will supposedly not do.”

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