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I was listening to Msgr Steward Swetland today and he had what I consider to be a good point. I disagree with him fairly often but on this one I had to comment.
He noted that in this country there have been 60 million abortions. Thats 60 million missing people, people who would have been here, growing up, going to school, working, paying taxes, having children.
One of the arguments against immigration is that it's just too many people. But if we had allowed those 60 million aborted babies to live would we have complained the same way? We have a 60 million person hole in our society. Can't we use legal immigration to fill that void? There IS room for them, at least if we are consistent about our position against abortion. 60 million vacancies.
Then I wondered about reparation for the sins resulting from abortion. Might taking on more immigrants be a partial reparation. We do have those missing people, and filling the hole with immigrants would repair the hole.
I am not for illegal immigration. But I am for immigration done lawfully and with the intent of acceptance of the ideals of this country. We know our immigration laws are woefully out of date. Can we find a way to actually fix them? Or do we need to drain the Washington swamp entirely first.
Msgr Swetland made another point, about political parties, which is that the American Solidarity Party actually comes close to Catholic social teaching, which of course it actually does explicitly try to do.
I was listening to Msgr Steward Swetland today and he had what I consider to be a good point. I disagree with him fairly often but on this one I had to comment.
He noted that in this country there have been 60 million abortions. Thats 60 million missing people, people who would have been here, growing up, going to school, working, paying taxes, having children.
One of the arguments against immigration is that it's just too many people. But if we had allowed those 60 million aborted babies to live would we have complained the same way? We have a 60 million person hole in our society. Can't we use legal immigration to fill that void? There IS room for them, at least if we are consistent about our position against abortion. 60 million vacancies.
Then I wondered about reparation for the sins resulting from abortion. Might taking on more immigrants be a partial reparation. We do have those missing people, and filling the hole with immigrants would repair the hole.
I am not for illegal immigration. But I am for immigration done lawfully and with the intent of acceptance of the ideals of this country. We know our immigration laws are woefully out of date. Can we find a way to actually fix them? Or do we need to drain the Washington swamp entirely first.
Msgr Swetland made another point, about political parties, which is that the American Solidarity Party actually comes close to Catholic social teaching, which of course it actually does explicitly try to do.
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