2005 Archives
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EDITORIAL: We can’t wait for immigration reform_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
EDITORIAL:
We can't wait for immigration reformTry to imagine a long-term issue as vital to the future of Texas–and, not coincidentally, the United States–as immigration. OK; health care and education. But both of those big-ticket items will be impacted in one way or another by how well we solve our immigration crisis.
A package of articles in this issue of the Standard paints a face on immigration in Texas. The sheer numbers seem incomprehensible: More than 1 million residents of our state–about one in 20 people–are undocumented. In the harshest language, they're illegal aliens. That term, “illegal alien,” sounds more like a creature from a sci-fi movie than the person who eats at the next table in the coffee shop, the child who sits next to your son or daughter in homeroom, the fellow who mows your neighbor's yard or the believer who receives the Lord's Supper with you on Sunday morning.
Segregated as we tend to be, most non-Hispanic Texans rarely, if ever, worship with undocumented workers and their children. But they are here, in Texas churches. They're sisters and brothers in Christ, like Ernesto and Maria, whose story is told elsewhere in our paper. Read about them (click here), and then come back. …
01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
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Texas Baptist Forum_12405
Posted: 1/21/05
TEXAS BAPTIST FORUM:
Religious right (on)
The United States has been unofficially known as a “Christian nation” since it was settled, fought for and founded in vast majority by Religious Right Protestant Christians who fled European persecution. Two hundred twenty-five years later, Satan now persecutes their believing descendants.
The socialist, anti-God Liberal Left rose half a century ago. Even some believers support the Left's political agenda of abortion, immorality and godlessness, evidence of its Satanic origin and power.
Our overwhelmingly Christian founders didn't exclude other faiths or no faith, but they established the right to publicly express majority belief in God and allowed no restriction of public prayer or expression of faith. They created majority rule through elected representatives, not minority rule through illegal abuse of court power.
Letters are welcomed. Send them to marvknox@baptiststandard.com; 250 words maximum. 01/21/2005 - By John Rutledge
David Bonnet to First Church in Evant as pastor. 
