The following is a guest post by Peter Laarman
Today’s New York Times has yet another story on the “unlikely allies” the president and the Democrats are getting on immigration reform: evangelical Christians.
Hooray, you might say, if you support comprehensive and compassionate immigration reform as I do. But wait, what’s this? At the very end of Laurie Goodstein’s long front-age report comes this little bombshell, from the mouth of evangelical bigwig (and former Ohio election-rigger-in-chief) Ken Blackwell:
But Mr. Blackwell said the whole effort could implode if the final legislation extended family reunification provisions to same-sex couples where one spouse did not have legal status. For evangelicals, he said, ‘That would be a deal-breaker.’
Okay, and we’ve heard pretty much the same thing from the country’s Roman Catholic bishops: They, too, would rather have 11 or 12 million undocumented residents continue to cower in the shadows rather than allow inclusion of a family reunification measure that is estimated to affect, at most, 36,000 same-sex couples.
Am I the only person wondering what Jesus would have to say about that kind of moral reckoning?
