Waxing Reaganesque — “Mr. Bush, take down this fence!”
Happy talk aside, relations between the two neighbors have worsened since Bush last year signed a law calling for construction of fencing along the long border the two countries share. Calderón has ridiculed the fence, likening it to the Berlin Wall.
Since I’ve already posted on this subject here and here, I’ll not say anything further.
However, there’s also this:
Church groups led marches along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to protest the use of fences to stop migrants.
Nearly 100 members of churches in Arizona and Mexico marched Sunday on either side of a wall near the town of Naco, which straddles the border.
On the Mexico side, Father Guillermo Coronado of La Iglesia San Jose in Naco, Sonora, said more people need to organize similar demonstrations.
“This is a sign of what needs to be done in all the border states rather than rejecting and ignoring other human beings,” he said. “The greatest gift we have is that we are human beings with a mission to love and be happy. God has no borders.”
Señor Coronado, a question, please.
Does your church have any borders?
Also, does your church take any action to stop activity it deems immoral?
And finally, do you see any valid parallels between your answers to the previous questions and what you’re protesting against?