"I often wonder if Joseph, Mary and Jesus would find a place in Farmers Branch. They would probably be told they would have to find another place."
Some Dallas-area Catholics are cheesed off:
Tom Bohmier doesn't buy it. Raised Catholic, he is one of the more visible citizen-activists in favor of the ordinance. Jesus' parents were breaking no Egyptian law when they fled, he said.
"The reference is unclear, inappropriate and made a lot of Catholics very upset," he said.
He's been church-hopping for a while and was about to come back to his Catholic parish when the bishop's comments hit the news, he said.
"I told the local father, 'I'm not coming back for a while, now,' " Mr. Bohmier said.
Read the whole story in today's Dallas Morning News. The piece takes up the question of whether or not religious leaders are right to speak out in favor of going easy on immigrants in the country illegally. My sense is that unless these migrants are fleeing persecution, religious leaders should stand up for the law, and not the lawbreakers. Are laws regulating immigration inherently unjust? If that's what Bp. Grahmann and other believe, I understand their stance, though I disagree with it. But if immigration laws are just, and the Farmers Branch city council is simply trying to come up with a way of enforcing the law that the federal government is unwilling or unable to enforce, in what sense is their ordinance requiring renters to prove that they are in the US illegally an unjust law? I don't get it.
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Actually, immigration is impeding the rate of intermarriage, as new immigrants tend to marry within their group. Here is a though experiment for god-is-in-the-TV. What if the US hadn't conquered the Southwest and the huge East to West migration of Euroamericans taken place. Do you really think it would be the economically successful region it is today? Or would it resemble Mexico? If the former, why exactly is it different from Mexico? Does ethnicity/culture/or (horrors) genetics matter? As for compasion, I don't think destroying American communities and depressing wages for Americans is particularly compassionate. It may make you feel righteous to be so 'non-racist' , but some poor working class American is paying for your compasion. Ditto, of course, for the Bishop of Dallas.
In other words, living things have no interest in staying alive. Good luck selling that argument. What does "staying white" have to do with "staying alive?" Never mind. I never did understand that mindset - the ethnically isolationist, that is.
GIIST--'lilly white'. That of course is a slur, and I fear is evidence of anti-white mindset of so many people. Including self-hating white folk. As for time scale, in my life I have already seen to total transformation of neighborhoods I grew up in. Central Orange County, California, was once a working class white area. Now it is dominated by Vietnamese. The are hard working folk, but the Asian strip malls are foreign,as is the Southeast Asian gang violence that a small minority of them participate in. When I was a kid I thought the people who opposed the mass settlement of these refugees were mean-spirited. Now I see they were fighting for their community as it then existed. Many moved to Oregon and Washington. But soon there will be no place to re-create the communities America had before the mass immigration.
Where is the discussion about the obligations of the Mexican government and people to take care of their own population. We have been part of a non-profit for Latin America for years and have been to the mountains of Mexico where these illegals come from. They are poor and they want more, but they are not starving, nor are they facing slavery, percecution, etc. Mexico is not the Sudan.
Mexico's poor live in a sad situation that is not just but it will never improve until Mexico changes and Mexico will never change as long we are the escape hatch. Mexico has many wealthy people. As long as the poor and unhappy disappear into the United States those wealthy people and the Mexican government do not have to do anything (and they don't do anything to expand their economy) because they do not want to include their own poor in their lives or their economy. I would also suggest that people look at want happens to these young people when they do come to this country. They have left their mountain villages and frequestly leave a spouse and children behind and eventually end up with a commmon-law spouse here with some more children who have no legal claim to them. Better to stay in your own country poor and keep your faith and be a father or mother to your children.
That of course is a slur, Explain.
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