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Two North Alabama ministers join a Washington, D.C., protest against proposed immigration laws.

“God’s people are called to welcome the stranger,” said the Rev. Gene Lankford, a Methodist minister from Marshall County, quoting Bible verses from Leviticus and Matthew. “You are to love the alien as yourself.”

Being faithful is not always easy…

The House bill would make it a felony to be in this country illegally and make it a crime to assist illegal immigrants.

“We came to declare our intent to defy any law that forbids us to offer humanitarian services,” Lankford said. “Not to offer those services would be to defy the law of God.”

I would be interested in knowing more about the specifics of this bill which has already passed the House. Would it be a crime to intervene if you saw an illegal immigrant being robbed? If an illegal immigrant were shot, would it be a crime to offer medical help? Would it be a crime to give a hungry illegal immigrant something to eat?

And then I think… this is an issue that Roy Moore could really sink his teeth into. He has already made a name for himself as someone who will not obey a law that forbids him to acknowledge God via the Ten Commandments. The bit about “loving your neighbor” is a big one with Christians – even more important than the Ten Commandments.^*

And so I wonder, what would Roy Moore say about a proposed law that would arguably forbid him to acknowledge God’s commandment to love his neighbor – a commandment that is above even the Ten Commandments.

^*(And let us not forget that when Jesus was asked by a lawyer who his neighbor was, Jesus explained that even a Samaritan could be a neighbor. Samaritans were a group far more despised in that time than illegal immigrants are today.)