A couple of days ago, I posted here about the fact that the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) has expressed support for an amnesty proposal for illegal immigration. The ERLC is affiliated with George Soros’ organization– the Evangelical Immigration Table– and signed on to a letter to Congress it sent supporting the proposed Dignity Act.
This proposed legislation gives illegals who were in this country prior to 2021 an opportunity to “purchase” their amnesty by paying restitution of $7,000 over seven years. Of course, in the bigger scheme of things, that amount is a pittance.
When it was criticized, the ERLC lashed back that its critics were lying because this was not amnesty.
David Harris has a good article at TruthScript. I will excerpt:
The ERLC’s record of leftwing funding, progressive advocacy, suppression of vital information, and “showing up late to the party” at crucial times is well documented. But the important question in regard to the Dignity Act is: Does this legislation actually meet biblical standards for justice and morality?…
(T)he posture of the pro-amnesty players is to “take the high ground” by utilizing terms like this one to paint the opposition as cruel, cold, and heartless. In their view, one side supports the Christian understanding of “love your neighbor as yourself” and “show mercy to the sojourner,” while the other side is steeped in unenlightened cruelty.
What is consistently missing from organizations like the ERLC’s push for the legalization of masses of unlawfully present foreign nationals is any urgency to deal with the security and well-being of US citizens. To be sure, there is always some language concerning “strong border security,” but there is never any concern for the incredible theft that’s been committed by illegal immigrants against Americans. The Dignity Act is a prime example of this bait and switch…
American Christians who love their country and want to hand off even a slightly functional version of it to their children have been pushed and bullied for years over their desire for a secure, just, biblical system of immigration/border policy. The Bible’s teachings concerning the duties and responsibilities of the state are crystal clear, and ought not to be circumvented by vague platitudes designed to shame those who simply want to live in an actual country where rights and responsibilities are passed from one generation to the next.
Christians who are illegally present in the US need to come to terms with the reality of their situation. They’ve violated fundamental biblical teachings and should come to a place of repentance and real restitution. They ought also to generate the same care and concern they place on their economic betterment for their homelands and peoples.
The Dignity Act is just another in a long train of proposed abuses against the American nation. As with similar proposals, Christian Americans need not be manipulated by goals of self-serving individuals and organizations, like the Evangelical Immigration Table.
Injustice dressed in the language of justice is still injustice, and need not be entertained.
TC: Well said. We shouldn’t be intimidated into accepting something contrary to the word of God.
Yes, he did a good job with this, Fred. The problem is bad leadership.