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If you had "First Things asserts the priority of the state over the natural family" on your 2019 Bingo Card, collect your prize: firstthings.com/article/2019/0…
also, it is a little weird that this essay spends about 15% of its length making a case against open borders and 85% of its length making a case that people who are for open borders are liberal sops.
and even if one accepts all the logic here, how do refugees and asylum seekers -- people who have been denied their earthly home and rejected from their earthly citizenship -- fit in? Might we have room to welcome a number equivalent to 0.5% of our population?
fwiw, I tried to discuss what Christian responsibilities are to people in need without sentimentality in these two pieces. You can tell me if I denigrated citizenship and replaced the moral law with liberal pieties! mereorthodoxy.com/romans-13-jeff… & mereorthodoxy.com/and-who-is-my-…
And to be fair, First Things did publish my thoughts on the subject a few years ago: firstthings.com/web-exclusives…
