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That is the message being heard from some
leading evangelicals in the United States. After decades of promoting
traditionally conservative causes like opposition to abortion, many
evangelical leaders are now wielding their formidable influence to
persuade Republican lawmakers to back one of President Barack Obama's
top priorities.
With Hispanic
attendance at their churches rising, these evangelicals are among the
loudest advocates of a U.S. immigration reform. A group of pastors has
launched a 40-day campaign to have churchgoers pray, read scripture
passages about welcoming the stranger and lobby their members of
Congress, many of them in the conservative South.
"We
have pastors preach in pulpits to parishioners in Alabama, Georgia,
Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas - in all the wonderful red states across
America," that aiding immigrants, illegal or not, is a Christian duty,
said Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, one of the country's most prominent Hispanic
evangelicals.
