Hard-Liners for Jesus

It's Christmas, a holiday that couldn't be better calibrated to expose the Republicans' rank, fetid hypocrisy. How is the party of "moral values" also the party of torture and xenophobia?

But it's on their policies concerning immigrants where Republicans -- candidates and voters alike -- really run afoul of biblical writ. Not on immigration as such but on the treatment of immigrants who are already here. Consider: Christmas, after all, celebrates not just Jesus's birth but his family's flight from Herod's wrath into Egypt, a journey obviously undertaken without benefit of legal documentation. The Bible isn't big on immigrant documentation. ... Full Story »

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Peter Behlen
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by Peter Behlen - Oct. 1, 2008

this piece starts out with a common dishonesty, speaking of immigrants when what is meant are illegal immigrants. using a line out of Exodus and and the birth of Christ to say we shouldn't require people to obey the law is ludicrous. Articles like this is why it's so difficult for anyone to have an intelligent argument today, since those you disagree with have to be insulted and charged with all sorts of terrible attitudes that are part of the writers imagination.

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