I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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Thanks for your invocation of all those forebearers to mark a place in your passage, and, by your gesture, in our passage. I know only the story of my father, who served in the OSS in the Second World War, although he rarely talked about it. I learned at his memorial service that he won a bronze star for saving some of the Doolittle fliers from the jungle, those who had bailed out after their bombing run, only making it to Indochina. He did tell me once that at a particularly dicey moment when …
me too, Fern. but I think it's just my basic (and completely unfounded) optimism talking. and I always figure that it's best to expect as little as possible, since if I can actually convince myself to expect absolutely nothing, then anything positive is like a wonderful gift. I'm willing to bet you know EXACTLY what I mean.