U.S. Catholic bishops made an appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday, urging the justices to “protect God-given human dignity” by striking down President Donald Trump’s “immoral” executive order on birthright citizenship.
“Children do nothing wrong by being born in the United States,” the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote in an amicus brief. “Yet, this executive order renders them stateless. Depriving an innocent child of his citizenship based upon his parents’ immigration status would be an especially outrageous punishment — one that this court has rejected as punishment even for people who have been proven guilty.”
The bishops’ impassioned plea comes just over a month before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments over the administration’s proposed limits on citizenship rights. Citing scripture, the Constitution and Western tradition, they argued the order would undermine both the legal and moral foundations of American society.
“At its core, this case is not solely a question about citizenship status or the Fourteenth Amendment,” the bishops wrote. “It is a question of whether the law will affirm or deny the equal worth of those born within our common community — whether the law will protect the human dignity of all God’s children.”
{snip}
The post Catholic Bishops Push for End to ‘Immoral’ Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court appeared first on American Renaissance.
American RenaissanceRead More
R1
T1
