Libby Grammer Garrett, a Baptist and a master-of-divinity student at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, makes a hide-blistering appeal to conscience and faith on behalf illegal immigrants.
Facing directly into the hurricane anti-immigrant misinformation directed at the issue, she writes, for the Associated Baptist Press::
When real people who are made in the image of God become involved, we realize that the issue of undocumented immigration is testing the capacity of Christians to resist temptations that undermine a Kingdom ethic -- xenophobia, racism, greed. If Christians claim to look to the Bible as our guide on moral decision-making, then we must do so on the issue of undocumented immigration as well.
Having earlier quite accurately said that most Americans are badly informed about immigrants by "inflammatory and misleading news sources," she reminds us that:
Jesus himself was an alien in Egypt when his parents fled to save his life. He was kind to strangers and taught a Kingdom ethic in which inclusion of outsiders was central. Paul noted our status as resident aliens in the world and what might be called our ‘naturalized citizenship’ in the Kingdom of Heaven.
She calls upon Baptists, and through them all of us, to give "public witness" to the real needs of undocumented immigrants.
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