'God loves boat people': Churches take a stand

[cbayer]

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/god-loves-boat-people-churches-take-a-stand-20130901-2syua.html

September 2, 2013
Emma Partridge


Conscience vote: Reverend Andrew Bruce says the church ''cares about what is going on in the world''. Photo: Edwina Pickles

God loves boat people.

This is the message displayed outside more than 70 churches across the state, as religious institutions step in to care for an increasing number of asylum seekers with nowhere else to go.

One Sydney church has helped to rehouse more than 90 asylum seekers dumped in an inner-city hotel the day after leaving Curtin Immigration Detention Centre.

They arrived with the singlets on their backs and $85 to last them two weeks in a cramped room with no cooking facilities.

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[gopiscrap]

1. I like this church

[cbayer]

2. Me, too.

[trotsky]

3. "God loves boat people" vs "God hates boat people"

Each is equally supportable.

How about we take care of people because it's the right thing to do rather than because we think it's something a god wants us to do?

[LostOne4Ever]

4. I like this church too!

I commend them for doing this and hope more people follow suit. If more churches (specifically the right wing ones) followed suit rather than fixated on opposing the rights of others this would be a much better world

Kudos to Rev. Bruce and his church.