LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY roseross)

"Unlike last year's Evangelical Climate Initiative, which drew headlines, stunned some longtime 'traditional values' conservative evangelicals, and was an attempt to build bridges to combat global warming, the newly formed 'Families First on Immigration' appears to have elicited little support for its grand entrance into the immigration debate.

And, unlike the numerous religious organisations that have consistently supported undocumented workers and their families, Families First on Immigration is focused more on securing the U.S. borders and eliminating citizenship birthright than with the human rights of immigrants.

Under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, anyone born in the United States is a citizen -- a right Families First is waging an extremely uphill battle to overturn.

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY charlayne)

"I (Apostle Paul) permit no woman to teach or have authority over a man."

"The leadership of the convention is not that interested in opening wide the doors of the church as they are in preserving purity," Bruce T. Gourley, associate director of The Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Ga, associate director of The Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Ga said. "And they keep setting the boundaries of purity narrower and narrower and narrower."

Me: I wouldn't stick around, I would probably want to sue them under EEOC regulations.

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