Posted on 03/23/2006 5:12:33 PM PST by glad2bdad
Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton invoked Jesus to argue against a House immigration bill that would make illegal presence in the United States a felony.
"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures," Clinton said, according to the Associated Press, "because this bill would literally criminalize the Good Samaritan and probably even Jesus himself."
Clinton delivered her remarks as the Senate prepared to take up a version of the measure, which passed the House in December.
Unlawful presence in the U.S. currently is a civil offense.
Flanked by New York immigration activists, Clinton called the bill "mean-spirited" and inconsistent with Republicans' professed support for faith and values, the AP said.
Clinton said she hoped the Senate Judiciary Committee would come up with a compromise that would remove the House's severe penalties.
The New York senator said, however, she would back legislation to strengthen U.S. borders and seek more cooperation with Mexico and other neighboring countries.
She also wants to establish a way for the nation's approximately 11 million illegal immigrants to gain citizenship.
While recognizing the distress illegal immigration causes border communities, Clinton insisted Republicans are taking a great political risk in pushing the House bill forward.
"We want the outcome to be that they're on the wrong side of the politics as well as the wrong side of history and American values," she said.
As WorldNetDaily reported, a bill that would give millions of illegal aliens in the United States the opportunity to earn citizenship advanced last week when members of the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled likely passage of a proposal by Sens. Edward Kenney, D-Mass., and John McCain, R-Ariz.
Though a committee vote will not be held until after a week-long congressional recess, likely March 27, committee members appeared ready to back the Kennedy-McCain bill.
Would Jesus come here illegaly?
I think it's a sign of the rubbish to come.
Forgive me, but I don't believe Hilary Clinton knows Jesus.
I'm glad she uses incoherent rhetoric. It will help us in two years when we will be exposing Democrats as fractured and incapable of rational leadership.
Wait. The big question is here:
How can she say this:
It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures
Without the ACLU calling for her head, because she invoked religion? And since when, according to the left, does religion become an ok thing in gov't????
Excellent campaign fodder . Thanks Hitlary , we will be sure to use it in a campaign ad against you ...LOL !
LOL! What Spin! Holy Crap!
the only Jesus she knows is pronounced - "Hay-Seuss"
I wonder if Hillary has ever heard of the term, "Render unto Ceasar that which is Ceasar's."
One meaning of that phrase is that people should not rebel against their government. If that government is at all reasonable, and I think it's clear the Roman Empire wasn't always, Jesus was saying that people should still respect it where they could.
Do illegal immigrants respect the laws of our nation? Do they render unto Caesar that which is Ceasar's? As a matter of fact they steal as much as they can off Caesar.
Hillary, don't quit your day job. On second thought, please do!
she's running for president on a 'secure the borders' platform... of course it is unlikely she will consider actually doing it if she is elected but she will run on this platform, mark my words.
Hillary Clinton's way of honoring Jesus is to fund partial-birth abortions, oppose faith-based organizations which help damaged people to get their lives on track, evade taxes, hire private investigators to bully & blackmail her political enemies, and lie about everything.
Here, and she thought that Bible was just for putting on top of that stack of FBI files to keep them pressed nice and neat.
The difference between what Bush proposed and Hillary proposed is significant. Whereas Bush's proposal was to legitimize the presence of illegals already present in the United States, but restrict their ability to upgrade their status to seek citizenship, Hillary's proposal is to bypass "Go" and go straight to citizenship.
Yes, there are problems with what Bush proposed, but those problems are a matter of cost. It would cost an immense amount to round up illegals, detain them, and then deport them to their countries of origin. The attempt would create a huge underground railroad of illegals avoiding Immigration agents, paying exorbitant fees to professionals who will hide them, feeding organized crime and possibly creating a market for Islamic extremist ideology among the illegals.
The best method of dealing with the illegals is to give them work visas without the possibility of naturalization unless they return to their country of origin and apply for a visa through normal channels. Of course, this only works if the borders are closed and a time limit is imposed after which illegals found in country will be deported. The solution to illegal immigration has to be comprehensive, with an eye on the consequences of every step. Hillary's solution is nothing more than an attempt to create a voter base of non-english speaking, poor, welfare cases.
I think she borrowed the Book of Job from Howard.
"Forgive me, but I don't believe Hilary Clinton knows Jesus."
Hillary needs to know that Jesus is going to tell her, "Depart from me I never knew you."
"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures, ...."
That is your first problem, Hildebeast. You don't understand the Scriptures.
No brainer. All they have to do for citizenship is to go back to Mexico and be good citizens.
If he pronounces it "Hay-zoos".
If Senator Rick Santorum made the same comment as Hillary Clinton, He would be villified in the Press
Ooops...there goes another 10% of her base.
Gee, Hilary, which is it? Be tough on homeland defense or wink at open borders? I know, you'll try to take both positions.
Lucky for her, you probably can fool most of the people most of the time.
"The True Face of Her Heinous".
Well, Jesus would already be in jail for turning water into wine without some sort of license, so...
If you saw her giving this speach, she looked VERY uncomfortable even saying the name Jesus. Perhaps she wasn't sure how to pronounce it since it's probably the first time that word ever crossed those wrinkled lips.
They really do have no limits to their shame, do they?
Unbelievable.
When I read that statement, the mental image was the priest on Caddy Shack getting the ultimate zot.
"It is certainly not in keeping with my understanding of the Scriptures,"
Just stop, please. This is really embarassing.
Maybe Hillary should actually take some time to read the bible, instead of mis-quoting from it.
With the nuts that are in her camp I thought they would want to criminalize Jesus.
They have, in a way. All those challenges to public Nativity scenes, public prayers, Bible studies after school on school grounds, and the Ten Commandments displayed in government buildings. All courtesy of the Red Queen's base of support. How could we also forget the obscene and inappropriate ornaments the Hildebeast allowed on the White House Christmas tree? I'll bet the blasphemous shrew snickered about that every time she looked at them.
The last time I saw a picture of her in church, she was sleeping next to X-42 at President Reagan's funeral.
Hillary is crazy. No question about it.
Actually, Jesus could probably get away with making wine out of water. He just better not ship it across state lines or else....ATF comes knocking on His door.
Looks like Hillary doesn't believe in Separation of Church and State.
What is she trying to do, turn America into a THEOCRACY?
Jesus broke customs and laws, and preached charity. So does that mean Christians or good Samaritans should help or advocate the illegal immigrant break laws ?
Well, consider Jesus didn't’t break laws to hurt people; he broke laws to help people, it was the intent of the laws Jesus was opposed to, such as being able to work on the Sabbath to help someone in need.
Illegal immigrants steal and rob civil infrastructure from the legal citizens. Illegal immigrants cut in line in front of legal migrants. So helping illegal immigrants may seem charitable but it actually hurts others. Therefore allowing illegal immigrants break immigration laws and employers break labor laws isn’t the same at all as Jesus breaking the Sabbath to be charitable to someone in need, since others are harmed when these laws are broken.
Would Jesus be in favor of harming US citizens, making them loose their Job's, hospitals, schools and higher insurance and taxes and most specifically law and order or would he be in favor of chaos and anarchy, gangs and undocumented terrorists on the loose preying on innocent people?
Furthermore, consider God is a god of justice, and order, but the chaos created by the lawlessness of plagiarizing the labor of illegal immigration at slave wages, is that truly godly?
Finally take the concept of being forgiven, Jesus didn’t just forgive anybody, he only forgave those who repented. Likewise, giving amnesty to those who have attempted to steal civil infrastructure that doesn't belong to them, by immigrating without invitation and not admitting their sin or acting remorse, or agreeing to assimilate by following the order and customs of the majority of the of people who would offer citizenship and forgiveness if they did apply and ask legitimately is not in accordance with Christian teachings, of repentance.
Therefore it just plain rhetoric to call for Christian charity to be ahead of the rule of law in a country where laws are based upon Judeo-Christian principles. We first have to recognize the sovereignty of God, and the sovereignty of Judeo-Christian principles before we can ask for his fruits.
Her hypocracy knows no bounds. I honestly don't know how anyone in the room could have kept a straight face.
Oh-oh, here comes the lightning round!
AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH
Quickly went back to watching LSU beat Duke!
I watched a clip on TV and she seemed quite comfortable until she came to the part where she had to mention scriptures, and you're right, she was experiencing a throat closing up moment when it came to mentioning Jesus.
Hillary thinks that Jesus was an illegal immigrant?
Right on target.
Hillary just provided a huge and fertile pile for upcoming late night talk shows and election campaigns.
Hmmmm. I have to wonder if shrillairy ever found herself in the presence of Jesus, if she would scream at him like she screamed at Dick Morris, or if she would just burst into flames...
She obviously doesn't know Him at all. Jesus would never break the law in the first place. He would have come here legally!
Newt was being sarcastic and mentioned that Hellary was a member of the Christian bashing Democrat Party
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