Leith Anderson of NAE misled: NAE member Salvation Army is "neutral" on amnesty (update: even more don't sign on)

[UPDATE BELOW] Last week, the National Association of Evangelicals passed a pro-comprehensive immigration reform (aka amnesty) resolution, and Leith Anderson from that group - in Congressional testimony - strongly implied that all NAE members supported the resolution. His testimony included this:

We actually had a vote today on this resolution with leaders in the National Association of Evangelicals and there was no dissent... On the board there are 75 (members) who represent the head of denominations.

As it turns out, Leith Andersen was being misleading: the Salvation Army neither supports nor opposes the resolution, offering a statement with this:

Please know that Salvation Army leadership chose to abstain from signing the final resolution on immigration reform. While the news releases did not report this specifically, the fact remains that any resolution produced by the National Association of Evangelicals does not automatically become the official policy of a member organization (ie: The Salvation Army) unless they choose to make it so. In this case, The Salvation Army chose not to adopt the resolution nor will it become our stance on immigration reform. In actuality, The Salvation Army has never established any official position on this topic and has chosen to remain politically neutral on the matter.

10/21/09 UPDATE: Anderson was being even more misleading: only 11 out of the 40 NAE member denominations have signed on. See this and this, and compare the NAE's membership roster (nae.net/membership/current-members) to the much smaller list of those who've signed on (nae.net/immigration-2009-endorsements).

Comments

Schumer said that Lindsey Grahamesty will be the GOP point man on mass amnesty. Let's work on John Cornyn and Jon Kyl to keep them away from pushing this terrible public policy.

Think open war with the monkey government think freedom and think doing the work of freedom if you know what i mean? The enemies of freedom cannot be talked to or be reasoned with only removed. You cannot talk to hitler and ask him to be nice it always takes blood and many times rivers of blood to make a free place for your kids to live in without fear.