Secularists and liberals, both political and religious, are typically loath to consult the Bible when it comes to matters of public policy. They utterly reject the Bible’s teaching on same-sex marriage, abortion, and trans ideology.
So it is somewhat surprising that in the current debate about the status of illegal immigrants, the Old Testament, or Hebrew Bible, is regularly cited in defense of the illegal alien.
Debra Haffner, a Unitarian Universalist minister — a denomination not known for taking Scripture seriously — once offered a critique of an illegal immigration law in the Washington Post, saying, “It’s as if the 70 percent of Arizonans who support the law have forgotten the biblical injunction to ‘love the stranger for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.’”
This verse and others like it are frequently quoted in the name of “justice” for the illegal immigrant. Left-wing Christian advocacy group Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which is affiliated with Sojourners, had this passage on its website: “When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the stranger. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you” (Leviticus 19:33).
A second area where advocates for illegal immigrants rely on the Bible (whether they know it or not) is the “sanctuary city movement” that defies the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. […]
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