{"id":24771,"date":"2011-02-26T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/mississippi_bishops_oppose_immigration_bill\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T22:50:07","slug":"mississippi_bishops_oppose_immigration_bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24771","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Bishops oppose immigration bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from four Christian denominations are calling on Mississippi lawmakers to reject an Arizona-style immigration bill that would let officers check during traffic stops to see if a person is in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>Bishops from the Catholic, Episcopal, Evangelical Lutheran and United Methodist churches in Mississippi said Friday residents must be willing to forgive immigrants who enter the United States without permission.<\/p>\n<p>In an open letter to legislators and Gov. Haley Barbour, the bishops said the U.S. immigration system is \u201cbroken and outdated,\u201d\u009d but should be reformed by the federal government, not by states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/2011\/02\/25\/2895585\/bishops-oppose-immigration-bill.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from four Christian denominations are calling on Mississippi lawmakers to reject an Arizona-style immigration bill that would let officers check during traffic stops to see if a person is in the country illegally. Bishops from the Catholic, Episcopal, Evangelical<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24771\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,42,66,147,114,154,151,108,619,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-immigration","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}