{"id":10228,"date":"2010-10-15T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T13:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10228"},"modified":"2010-10-15T09:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T13:50:39","slug":"us-bishops-march-for-open-borders-but-not-for-anglicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/us-bishops-march-for-open-borders-but-not-for-anglicans\/","title":{"rendered":"US Bishops march for open borders \u2013 but not for Anglicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/geoconger.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/15\/us-bishops-call-for-open-borders-the-church-of-england-newspaper-oct-15-2010-p-6\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Episcopal Church\u2019s House of Bishops has called for a halt to the enforcement of US immigration laws, calling upon Episcopalians to join with other members of the religious left in \u201cactively protesting\u201d racial stereotyping and demand a halt to \u201cpractices that treat undocumented workers as criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a pastoral letter and discussion paper released at the close of their Sept 16-21 meeting in Phoenix, the bishops said the starting point for a debate on illegal immigration begins with \u201can obligation to advocate for every undocumented worker as already being a citizen of God\u2019s reign on earth and one for whom Christ died.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_1bQUgeeFs8U\/TLTt2kNcnCI\/AAAAAAAAFzc\/7ZkwOi6dnw8\/s800\/KJS%20at%20the%20border.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a little ironic that US Bishops are all for open borders in the secular realm, but when it comes to open borders for Anglicans it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanplanet.net\/usa\/2010\/7\/14\/the-american-presiding-bishop-meets-the-press.html\" target=\"_blank\">quite another matter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Schori told the press that she found the cross-border interventions \u201cpainful and destructive.\u201d She said, \u201cIt destroys pastoral relationships\u2026.It does spiritual violence to vowed relationships.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The Episcopal Church\u2019s House of Bishops has called for a halt to the enforcement of US immigration laws, calling upon Episcopalians to join with other members of the religious left in \u201cactively protesting\u201d racial stereotyping and demand a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/us-bishops-march-for-open-borders-but-not-for-anglicans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[638,1181,2262],"class_list":["post-10228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tec","tag-cross-border-intervention","tag-open-borders","tag-tec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}