Catholic bishops push for end to ‘immoral’ birthright citizenship order at Supreme Court

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U.S. Catholic bishops made an appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday, urging the justices to “protect God-given human dignity” by striking down President Donald Trump’s “immoral” executive order on birthright citizenship.
“Children do nothing wrong by being born in the United States,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote in an amicus brief. “Yet, this executive order renders them stateless. Depriving an innocent child of his citizenship based upon his parents’ immigration status would be an especially outrageous punishment — one that this court has rejected as punishment even for people who have been proven guilty.”
The bishops’ impassioned plea comes just over a month before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments over the administration’s proposed limits on citizenship rights. Citing scripture, the Constitution and Western tradition, they argued the order would undermine both the legal and moral foundations of American society.
“At its core, this case is not solely a question about citizenship status or the Fourteenth Amendment,” the bishops wrote. “It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community — whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children.”
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[Doom]

The argument the bishops are making is bizarre and completely incoherent, and does not conform to the practice of any other country in the Western world. I think the main reason they are so aggressively in favor of open borders and lax enforcement of the law is that the majority of illegal immigrants in the US are Catholic, and they are worried that without them, the Catholic Church in the US will lose a lot of revenue in particular, government money that they get for helping "resettle" immigrants. They are looking most likely at what is good for the bottom line, not what is good for the Church or the country as a whole.


And by the way, the person who drafted this for the bishops was Matthew Martens, who is a non-Catholic "progressive" evangelical attorney who said, among other asinine claims, that he supported Joe Biden because Biden is "pro life".....it is unwise for the bishops to get into bed with such people.

[Highlander]

I get it when the Bishops speak on matters moral and theological. And I get that such matters are intertwined with secular actions and personal actions and collective actions. What I don't get is when the Bishops involve themselves with actions that are essentially political.

Please don't respond with Catholic social justice. My limited, but not nonexistent, knowledge of the subject informs me that the Bishops, and others, sometimes advance what is essentially a modernist, secular, utopian, political agenda under the guise of social justice. That path leads to the irrelevance of faith, as the Protestants have experienced.

In the case of birthright citizenship, it seems the core argument is that children born in the US have the right to be citizens because US citizenship gets them lots of free things. This "right" then allows, depending upon how "family" is defined, a plethora of folks deemed family to also get lots of free things. And, since on cannot distinguish between the moral worth of a baby born in the US and anybody else on the planet, everybody is morally entitled to lots of free things provided by the US. And other things. Like unrestricted entry into the US. The leap from the Christian responsibility to care for your neighbor to "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" becomes a very, very small step.