Gene Robinson, first openly gay Episcopal bishop, to divorce partner of 25 years
Posted on 07/20/2014 9:30:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Much smaller, poorer countries are opening their gates for refugees from violence-torn parts of the world. Why can't we do the same?
Maybe we should just send the Statue of Liberty back where it came from.
That long-and-much-beloved iconic statue, standing in New York Harbor, greeting immigrants by the tens of thousands, is inscribed with Emma Lazarus’ poem: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” Our beloved Lady Liberty has been a beacon of hope for millions of people seeking a better life.
The first human being to come through Ellis Island was an unaccompanied minor. Her name was Annie Moore, and a statue of her (and her two younger brothers) now stands on that tiny piece of hope in New York Harbor, along with one of her in Ireland, from whence she came. Thousands of unaccompanied minors followed her through Ellis Island.
But these days, with unprecedented numbers of children reaching our border with Mexico, many in Congress would have you believe that we are dealing with barbarians at the gate, rather than children seeking refuge from violence in their home countries...
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Maybe we should send YOU back to France, or where ever your ancestors came from.
Those immigrants WANTED TO BECOME AMERICANS, not come here with their own laws and CHANGE US. End of Argument, you ponse.
Duh.... Hay! George! That danged 'e' fell off again...
This Bishop is an idiot.
It’s still 1922 pre-welfare state in his head.
Fool.
Gene Robinson, first openly gay Episcopal bishop, to divorce partner of 25 years
The last thing we should do is follow French advice about immigration policy ( since France is even further along the road to perdition than is USA in losing their country to the islamonazi scum of the earth)
Robinson retired in 2013 as the Bishop of New Hampshire, and is now a fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.
Its President and chief executive officer is Neera Tanden, who worked for the Obama and Clinton administrations and for Hillary Clinton’s campaigns. Its first President and chief executive officer was John Podesta, who served as chief of staff to then U.S. President Bill Clinton. Podesta remains with the organization as chairman of the board.
The Center for American Progress is classified as a 501(c)(3) .
CAP officials, including Podesta, were deeply involved in the transition to President Obama’s administration in 2008-09. TIME characterized the involvement: “President-elect Obama has effectively contracted out the management of his own government’s formation to [John] Podesta.” POLITICO characterized the interrelationship between the transition team and CAP as “historically unique.”
In a feature article on the expansion of ThinkProgress, POLITICO illustrated how the site differs from a mainstream news organization. POLITICO reported:
ThinkProgress [… is] hardly just another media organization. […] Further, CAP Action Fund openly runs political advocacy campaigns, and plays a central role in the Democratic Party’s infrastructure, and the new reporting staff down the hall isn’t exactly walled off from that message machine, nor does it necessarily keep its distance from liberal groups organizing advocacy campaigns targeting conservatives.
CAP receives money from multibillionaire hedge fund manager George Soros through two of his nonprofit groups, the Foundation to Support Open Society and the Open Society Institute. From 2005 through 2010, the two organizations gave CAP over $5.4 million. CAP receives money from other liberal-leaning foundations, including the Tides Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the foundation of Progressive Insurance chairman Peter B. Lewis.
Some of the organizations’ donations have been highly questionable. For example, Bermuda-based Atlantic Philanthropies donated $1.5 million to the CAP Action Fund, which operates ThinkProgress in 2010. (Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory.) United States-based foundations are forbidden by tax law from donating to organizations incorporated under Section 501(c)(4)—such as CAP Action—but as POLITICO reports, no such restrictions apply to foreign grant-makers.
Labor unions are also major sources of funding for the Center and especially ThinkProgress. According to unions’ required filings to the Department of Labor, since 2009 unions have donated over $2.2 million to the two organizations. Unsurprisingly, The Center and ThinkProgress have provided fawning coverage of unions and endorsed policies the unions support, like the “card check” legislation and the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). Additionally, the former Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Anna Burger, was named to the CAP Action board of directors in 2010. The SEIU has been one of the largest union supporters of CAP and its affiliates, with over $600,000 in total contributions.
Unions aren’t the only groups that benefit from contributions with mutually interested advocacy support. CAP and ThinkProgress have also faced scrutiny for their silence toward retail giant Wal-Mart, uncommon in progressive circles. Both the liberal newsmagazine The Nation and the conservative Weekly Standard have reported that Wal-Mart had donated to CAP, and CAP touted Wal-Mart as a partner in the healthcare reform debate. (The Washington Free Beacon estimated the donations at over $500,000 over a ten-year period, citing a Wal-Mart webpage that is no longer active.) Wal-Mart, which had been singled out for an employer mandate in some states, was a strong advocate of a national mandate on employers much smaller than the multibillion-dollar corporation.
ThinkProgress Staff Accused of Anti-Semitism
ThinkProgress was embroiled in a controversy in late 2011-early 2012 over language its bloggers used to characterize the United States’ relations with Israel. The controversy began with a report by Ben Smith, then of POLITICO, on dissension within the liberal ranks on the issue of what to do about a possible Israeli-Iranian conflict. Smith quoted a CAP analyst writing at a ThinkProgress sub-site, Middle East Progress, comparing Israel’s Gaza policy to “segregation in the American south.” Unnamed ThinkProgress officials were reported as saying that the Center’s goal was to open political space to President Obama’s left; CAP denied the reports.
https://www.activistfacts.com/organizations/528-center-for-american-progress/
The tablet is inscribed with “July 4, 1776” in Roman numerals.
It is the statue of LIBERTY, not the statue of illegal immigration.
Lefties make up lies and repeat them over and over, and after a while people think they are the truth.
The Statue didn’t come with the Socialist Lazarus’ poem on it. And a poem is not an immigration law.
I wish someone would explain what an “openly bisexual relationship” is.
Bisexual literally means two sexes, which would seem to mean a conventional hetero relationship; but we know that is not what is meant in today’s world.
Wouldn’t bisexual require plural relationships?
What is described in his biography is a homosexual who married for a time, then left his heterosexual marriage to begin living a homosexual lifestyle.
It is the “Statue of Liberty”, not the “Statue of Invasion”.
Ms. Moore was 17, and hardly considered a minor at that time in history. Had Annie not been healthy, had her immigration paperwork not been in order, had she not presented proof of a sponsor and proof of support, she would have been turned away, as many were turned away, including the unskilled.
If the price is not having a border, then actually, yeah, crate it up and send it back.
Time to send Obama back to Kenya
“”The first human being to come through Ellis Island was an unaccompanied minor. Her name was Annie Moore””
“Ms. Moore was 17, and hardly considered a minor at that time in history. Had Annie not been healthy, had her immigration paperwork not been in order, had she not presented proof of a sponsor and proof of support, she would have been turned away, as many were turned away, including the unskilled.”
Leftists never let facts interfere with good propaganda, like Jesse Jackson saying Mary and Joseph were “homeless”.
Can’t we just start spreading the idea that illegal immigrants contribute to global warming by increasing their carbon footprint for themselves and their families by at least two orders of magnitude? If they cause global warming, does that not make them bad?
>> Much smaller, poorer countries are opening their gates for refugees from violence-torn parts of the world. <<
So many lies:
1. No nation in the world takes more immigrants in than the United States.
2. Central America is less violence-torn than many of our own cities.
3. We’re bringing in the people who are causing the violence.
4. These aren’t our neighbors: Mexico is shipping them to the United States,
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