{"id":57222,"date":"2017-01-29T21:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nyt_christian_leaders_denounce_trumps_plan_to_favor_christian_immigrants\/"},"modified":"2017-01-29T21:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T21:40:42","slug":"nyt_christian_leaders_denounce_trumps_plan_to_favor_christian_immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57222","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Christian Leaders Denounce Trump\u2019s Plan to Favor Christian Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By giving preference to Christians over Muslims, religious leaders have said the executive order pits one faith against another. By barring any refugees from entering the United States for nearly four months, it leaves people to suffer longer in camps, and prevents families from reuniting. Also, many religious leaders have said that putting an indefinite freeze on refugees from Syria, and cutting the total number of refugees admitted this year by 60,000, shuts the door to those most in need.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe in assisting all, regardless of their religious beliefs,\u201d\u009d said Bishop Joe S. V\u00c3\u00a1squez, the chairman of the committee on migration for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Jen Smyers, the director of policy and advocacy for the immigration and refugee program of Church World Service, a ministry affiliated with dozens of Christian denominations, called Friday a \u201cshameful day\u201d\u009d in America\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/29\/us\/christian-leaders-denounce-trumps-plan-to-favor-christian-immigrants.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By giving preference to Christians over Muslims, religious leaders have said the executive order pits one faith against another. By barring any refugees from entering the United States for nearly four months, it leaves people to suffer longer in camps,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57222\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,175,168,419,144,147,114,616,154,177,151,129,108,364,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-foreign-relations","category-immigration","category-law-legal-issues","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57222","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=57222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}