Drawing the line

When the Pope and other Catholics have something interesting to add that promotes morality I’m all open ears, but when Catholics say I’m immoral for wanting a border, well then they are my enemy period.

Ben, VFR, June 1, 2006

Ben happened to be speaking about the Catholic open-borders ideology, but of course the statement does not apply only to Catholics, and it crystalizes something for me that I want to repeat in my own words:

If anyone says I’m immoral for wanting a border, then he is my enemy, period.

* * * After I posted this, Ben wrote back under the subject line, “I agree 100 percent”:

I want to make it clear that the Evangelicals have been silent, too. I haven’t heard any calling for open borders yet but a lot of them support Bush heavily and they have been pretty silent.

I was just responding to that article and I would say the same about any Evangelical leader, Protestant leader or anybody period. It makes no difference to me. There is no biblical scripture that says we must lay down and die for immigration or that we must defeat poverty. We must help the poor all we can but that doesn’t include suicide.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 02, 2006 10:00 AM | Send