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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5404086" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;If&nbsp; the problem is being able to care for illegal immigrants then maybe the state of Florida should have spent the $12 million on, you know, caring for illegal immigrants. Instead of using the money to get earned media for the governor. &nbsp; &nbsp; Let’s put aside the theology of immigration. Let’s pretend, just for a moment, that Jesus would have nothing to say about whether or not the state should seek to discourage undocumented migrants as a high-level matter of government policy.Those planes were filled with actual human beings. People with dignity. People with hopes and dreams, problems and challenges. People with names and families.And this Christian man used them as props. He didn’t clothe the naked or feed the hungry. He literally did the opposite: Evicted them—and not because he felt that he had to, or because it was a requirement of the law. But because he saw that he could use them as a means to the ends of his personal ambition.I’m trying—really trying—not to get too hot here. But Christians should look at this act and be revolted. They should be horrified.Because using vulnerable human beings for your personal gratification is evil. Full stop.&quot;J. Last , The Bulmark</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5404086, member: 54375"] "If the problem is being able to care for illegal immigrants then maybe the state of Florida should have spent the $12 million on, you know,[I] caring for illegal immigrants.[/I] Instead of using the money to get earned media for the governor. Let’s put aside the theology of immigration. Let’s pretend, just for a moment, that Jesus would have nothing to say about whether or not the state should seek to discourage undocumented migrants as a high-level matter of government policy. Those planes were filled with actual human beings. People with dignity. People with hopes and dreams, problems and challenges. People with names and families. And this Christian man used them as props. He didn’t clothe the naked or feed the hungry. He literally did the opposite: Evicted them—and not because he felt that he had to, or because it was a requirement of the law. But because he saw that he could use them as a means to the ends of his personal ambition. I’m trying—[I]really[/I] trying—not to get too hot here. But Christians should look at this act and be revolted. They should be [I]horrified.[/I] Because using vulnerable human beings for your personal gratification is evil. Full stop." J. Last , The Bulmark [/QUOTE]

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