Here’s the sermon I gave today about Arizona’s immigration law. If you can watch the video clip “UUs Stand on the Side of Love in Arizona” from http://www.uua.org/events/generalassembly/2010/ga2010/165851.shtml, I really urge you to do that. It is so powerful to hear folks telling their own stories about how anti-immigrant sentiment has personally hurt them and their families.
Peace,
Rev. Laura
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“Immigration Reform: How Are We Called to Act?”
The Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig, Minister
First Unitarian Universalist Church of Stockton
July 18, 2010
One of my favorite cartoon strips in the newspaper is called “Pickles.” It’s about an old married couple, Earl and Opal.
There was a strip the other day that showed the two of them
sitting on the porch and chatting. Opal says to Earl,
“Did you know that the DNA of humans and chimpanzees
is 96% the same?”
Earl says, “Yes, I do know that. I don’t believe it, though.”
Opal says, “You know it, but you don’t believe it?”
And Earl says, “Absolutely. I don’t believe everything I know.” (Brian Crane, “Pickles,” July 1, 2010.)
And it struck me: that sentiment is alive and well
all over the country, but especially today in Arizona,
where Governor Jan Brewer went on record last month
claiming the majority of undocumented immigrants
are not coming to this country to work,
but to smuggle drugs across the border and terrorize families. Continue reading
