Posted on 04/04/2014 8:38:32 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Several of Southern California's most prominent religious leaders gathered in downtown Los Angeles early Friday in a vigil for immigration reform, underscoring a growing interfaith effort to change the nation's immigration laws.
Undocumented immigrants "need mercy and they need justice," said Archbishop Jose Gomez, welcoming an array of Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders to the vigil, held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
Gomez, who has made changing immigration laws a hallmark of his three-year tenure leading the L.A. archdiocese, described current laws as "totally broken” and said they were unfairly punishing families and children.
"These are human souls, not statistics. These are children of God, we cannot be indifferent to their suffering," he said.
While the audience was sparse -- with only a few dozen people in attnendance to hear prayers for compassion along with repeated calls for President Obama to act -- the religious leaders on hand, from each of the three main Abrahamic traditions, represented a burgeoning interfaith push in the L.A. area for immigration reform.
Several leaders said that five or 10 years ago such an event would probably have been almost entirely Catholic or Christian, with a focus primarily on the Latino community.
“Times have changed,” said Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California. “Some have framed the issue as a monolithic issue of a particular denomination, but that is a myth. The immigration issue transcends all creeds, all colors, all languages.
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Decapitated bodies line Mexican highways Very merciful!
All they need and deserve is a ride home
Citizens of the United States need justice, with justice sending them back to Mexico, will come mercy for us.
And sent back to Mexico if not here legally.
Charity begins at home, chum. Why not help those folks in Mexico?
They NEED to go BACK to MEXICO!
What is so hypocritical of Mexico is that it gives out brochures on how to "cross the line" into "Gringolandia" but Mexcio's SOUTHERN border is shut TIGHT against illegal immigration from south of THEIR border.
They don't want no stinkin' poor immigrants crossing over into southern Mexico and taking jobs from Mexicans by working for EVEN less dinero.
Also a Mexican can work THREE months here in Gringolandia, picking strawberries and other fruits/vegetables and live NINE months in Mexico from those earnings.
Hah, Mexico is considered the "giant of the north" to the WORSE off countries to their south.
“LA Vigil”
Vigilantes?
Why not help those folks in Mexico?
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They should help them selves.....in Mexico.
bttt
If they define justice the same as I do, it would mean putting the illegal aliens on buses and sending them back home.
How do they know the laws are “broken”. There’s never an attempt to enforce them.
“Times have changed,” said Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California. “Some have framed the issue as a monolithic issue of a particular denomination, but that is a myth. The immigration issue transcends all creeds, all colors, all languages.”
Really Mr. Syed? Care to explain how illegal aliens are treated in Muslim countries, especially non-Muslim illegal aliens?
"Render unto Caesar what is caesar's, and unto God that which is God's"
vaudine
Now, I’m not putting down the church mission. I’m speaking in terms of that. The church has been the historical star of charity for the last 2000 years.
Charity is part of how God wants the world to work. However, it should also be willing. Liberals would be a lot more credible if they spent their own money like they want to spend others’.
And Caesar’s role is driven by taxes.
vaudine
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