{"id":159,"date":"2009-12-16T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2009\/12\/ethics-and-immigration.html"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T08:58:00","slug":"ethics-and-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2009\/12\/ethics-and-immigration.html","title":{"rendered":"Ethics and Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Post on the Park Forum: <a href=\"http:\/\/theparkforum.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/15\/843-acres-neighbors-ethics-and-immigration\/\">Ethics and Immigration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Incidentally, I recommend reading the NYT article upon which this is based. Not every day that a pastor prays his way onto a plane in order to comfort an Indonesian at risk of deportation&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Post on the Park Forum: Ethics and Immigration. Incidentally, I recommend reading the NYT article upon which this is based. 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