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Staying True to our Values
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
Staying I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” – Emma Lazarus
Painting: The Refugees by Tamara de Lempicka, 1937
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The political rhetoric around this topic right now is disheartening — to say the least. *Sigh*
It’s pandering to the worst fears, devoid of facts.
It is so disheartening I find myself in tears over this topic much of the time. The vitriol around immigration and refugees is toxic.
Toxic is exactly the word, Denise. And as we march towards the 2016 election, the vitriol is expanding. It’s times like these that it’s a relief to live in a forward-leaning state like California.
This makes me fear for the future of humanity. It’s a cruelty that gets played over and over and over again. Beyond sad.
It’s so confounding that we don’t learn from history.
Jon Stewart brilliantly summed up current Republican policy: “Learning curves are for pussies!”
I miss Jon Stewart so much.
It’s especially ironic how those who are most opposed to helping the refugees are equally strident about how “Christian” they themselves are, and how “Christian values” are “under attack” in this country. Care to guess how they would react to Jesus if He did return?
Great question, Len.
For the answer, look no further than how they responded to Pope Francis’ remarks about global warming and poverty…or to anyone who has dared question the Almighty Dollar.
The hypocrisy is infuriating.