Tony Woodlief inveighs against Alabama’s anti-immigration law, which "empowers police to arrest people on suspicion of being illegal immigrants, and deputizes public school teachers into border patrol bureaucrats":
[W]hat we have seen to be persistently true about any government armed with great intrusive authority is that no matter how good the intentions such power tends to be corrupted and the liberties of the virtuous destroyed. Therefore, an underlying principle of our Constitution is that often we allow the stupid and wicked, in order that virtue might be protected. In turn, this principle is rooted in a Christian understanding of man—that he is fallen and sinful, and that you dare not give him much unchecked power.
A federal judge in Alabama has delayed the enforcement of the law until she can figure out whether it's constitutional.
(Video: "Gospel Without Borders" Trailer from EthicsDaily on Vimeo. The full film "examines the biblical record about the treatment of the “stranger,” explores the experiences of documented and undocumented immigrants, and looks at how goodwill Christians address the overheated issue of immigration.")
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