06/17/2014
John Zmirak is in Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, calling for churches to stop pushing for immigration. Zmirak is a Catholic writer, and like many Catholics who have written for VDARE.com, opposes the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ stand on immigration.Churches Should Cease Pro-Immigration Push, by John Zmirak, The Blaze, Jun. 17, 2014Emphasis added, links in original. VDARE.com covered Shaun Kenney here. So far, by the way, no one has accused the voters in Cantor’s district of anti-Catholicism.Steve Weatherbe recently reported in the global Catholic news portal Aleteia that America’s Catholic bishops are upping the pressure on Congress to offer an amnesty deal for illegal immigrants before the fall elections — which they and everyone else expect will yield a more conservative Congress.
Evangelical leaders who have hopped on the immigration bandwagon are also trying to move their more skeptical co-religionists into line with the Catholics and Democrats on this issue. It might seem ironic that social conservatives are trying to rush into law a major reform on a profoundly important national issue, lest the voters speak their minds and elect a more conservative Congress.
Is immigration an issue where Christians are morally obliged to part ways with their longtime conservative allies, because the obligations of the Gospel demand that we set aside national selfishness, and possibly even covert racist sentiments?
That is how some religious writers are casting the question. Prominent among them is Virginia Republican Party Executive Director, Shaun Kenney, ally of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was recently crushed by Dave Brat in that state’s Republican primary, largely because of Cantor’s support for passing an amnesty deal with the support of congressional Democrats.
In the buildup to that primary, Kenney penned an astonishing article in which he demonized opponents of amnesty as “know-nothings,” “nativists” and “clowns.” Citing none of the rational opponents of amnesty, but instead a collection of anonymous xenophobic rants, Kenney portrayed Brat supporters as hateful and dangerous heirs to the Ku Klux Klan, and called for Republicans to “drive them out” of the party.
Kenney’s piece is itself one of the more hateful, violent instances of political rhetoric I have seen in many years. With supporters like Kenney backing him, no wonder Virginia’s Republican voters decided instead to drive out Cantor instead.
Do a little more digging on Mr. Kenney, and you see exactly why he regards American patriotism as suspect: He is a politicized Catholic supremacist, who suggests that his co-religionists (I am one of them) ought to abandon any concern for the well-being of our fellow-Americans, and cast our political loyalty with our church, instead of our country. [More]
Worth checking out, from over ten years ago: The Brogue Wears Off: Why The Catholic Church Is Addicted To Immigration, By John Zmirak, VDARE.com, May 22, 2003.
This is a content archive of VDARE.com, which Letitia James forced off of the Internet using lawfare.