{"id":38,"date":"2010-07-20T12:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/07\/political-evangelicals-love-immigrants.html"},"modified":"2010-07-20T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T12:10:26","slug":"political-evangelicals-love-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2010\/07\/political-evangelicals-love-immigrants.html","title":{"rendered":"Political Evangelicals love immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to explain the willingness of some conservative evangelicals to join
\nforces with President Obama to support comprehensive immigration, as
\nthe NYT reported<\/a>
\nyesterday? Well it could be that it’s the Judeo-Christian thing to do.
\n(Or maybe not, if you’re Bryan Fischer of the American Family
\nAssociation.) But for sure there’s a political calculus, as baldly
\nstated by that most political of evangelicals, Richard Land of the
\nSouthern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission:<\/p>\n

“I’ve had some older conservative leaders say: ‘Richard,
\nstop this.
\nYou’re going to split the conservative coalition.’…I say it might
\nsplit the old conservative coalition, but it won’t
\nsplit the new one. And if the new one is going to be a governing
\ncoalition, it’s going to have to have a lot of Hispanics in it. And you
\ndon’t get a lot of Hispanics in your coalition by engaging in
\nanti-Hispanic anti-immigration rhetoric.”\t\t\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, this understates the GOP’s problem. According to the recent
\nTrinity ARIS Latino
\nsurvey<\/a>, between 1990 and 2008 the proportion of Latinos who support
\nthe Republican Party dropped from 24 percent to 12 percent. That’s
\nbefore Arizona passed its little illegal immigrant search law. It’s
\ntelling that in this summer of Obama’s discontent, the
\nlatest Gallup survey<\/a> finds that he’s got a higher approval than
\ndisapproval rating in Texas, which he lost to McCain by 55 percent to 44
\npercent. The approval is not coming from Anglos. Not to put too fine a
\npoint on it, but this horse is out of the barn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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