In a move that should shock no one, Southern Baptist R. Keny Felix has joined forces with Mark Seitz, bishop of El Paso, Texas, in attacking the Trump administration’s deportation of illegal aliens. Notably, Mark Seitz is the current chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration.
In an opinion piece in Newsweek co-written by the two, the authors trot out the usual appeals to pity – “families in tears,” children separated from families, “immigrant families now living in fear” – in opposition to the US enforcing immigration laws.
But appeals to pity aren’t the worst part of the article. It’s the deliberate attempt to promote ecumenism by appealing to “the values we [the two authors] uphold as Christians” as the basis for denouncing the deportation of illegal aliens.
Now it may well be that Roman Catholic Mark J. Seitz and Southern Baptist Keny Felix do, in fact, share a common faith. However, if that’s the case, it’s not the Christian faith based on the authority of the Scriptures alone and justification by faith alone.
Confused doctrinal thinking leads to confused political thinking.
Read the article here.
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