Meanwhile, Kansas bishops for the Episcopal, United Methodist and Evangelical Lutheran churches expressed concern about the tone of the debate over immigration. While not blaming candidates, Methodist Bishop Scott Jameson Jones said he sees "an undercurrent of racism in Kansas."This should be read in true Father James McQuarter voice:
...Meanwhile, the three Protestant bishops - Jones, Lutheran Gerald Mansholt and Episcopalian Dean Wolfe - said they're concerned that fear of economic dislocation or cultural differences is driving the debate.
"I am missing leadership from state officials to name the sin of racism," Jones said. "I don't find racist politicians, but I find people who are expressing racist views that then get played out in other ways, so that I'm deeply concerned with an undercurrent racism in the state of Kansas that I did not expect to find."
"We come from a Christian tradition that finds our Lord the child of a dislocated family," Wolfe said. "There's a sense of, I think, in the Christian community, of a deep commitment to the one who comes from afar, hospitality to the stranger."
Posted to Immigration at September 22, 2006 11:48 AM
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