The Bible Referenced In Immigration Debate
34Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama on Monday attempted to explain why his views on immigration were not at odds with his professed religious beliefs.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform, Dr. David Fleming of the Champion Forest Baptist Church in Texas noted that Leviticus 19:33-34 calls on believers to treat foreigners in their land "as the native among you."
Sessions responded there was no Scriptural basis "for the idea that a modern nation state can't have a lawful system of immigration." He cited a Biblical story in which the king of Edom denied the Israelites the right to pass through his land as evidence that the God of the Bible supported immigration laws — though the story seemed to imply the opposite. He warned Fleming and others were "leading little ones astray" by citing Scripture "loosely." ...
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