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TechnoratiWhen you violate borders and you violate the rule of law then that is not biblical. I don’t care how you want to wrap it up in the compassion blanket. Am I compassionate? Absolutely. But is it compassionate to enable bad behavior. And I don’t think it is.
I am not against immigration. I am pro-immigration. I am a second generation American. My mother is a first generation American and my grandparents emigrated from Portugal. My grandfather and grandmother met here, both immigrants and they worked really hard and made a good life for them and their family.
My grandfather could not read a lick. He took his citizenship orally; he had a great memory. I would read to him the news. He would listen to the news and have someone read to him the paper because he stayed up on news. He thought being an American is the greatest thing ever and I guarantee you he would not be for what is going on because there is a right way and there is a wrong way.
The Bible also says, “Woe be to the nation who declares good, evil and evil, good” and breaking the law is not good. That is just plain and simple. They are breaking the law.
I’m an elder in my church. If a family comes to me and the father needs some counseling because he messed up his finances, well I’m going to show him the right way to do things. I am not going to keep throwing money at a bad habit. I have to show him his behavior is why he is where he is at. You don’t reward bad behavior.
CP: A big issue right now is the evangelicals coalescing behind Gov. Mike Huckabee. What is your opinion on this? Do you think he represents what evangelicals are looking for?
Jeffers: I think it might be [that growing numbers of evangelicals will support him]. But more and more people are stopping to take a closer look at his record. I think part of it was just the momentum and the fact that he was addressing issues that are near and dear to our heart.
[But] we as a voting block have to be just as careful as any other voting block to not be pandered to. Just because the candidate says the right thing and wants to change things [we have to ask] what is it that he wants to change and what is it that he stands for.
I agree with helping people with a better life, but how do you want to go about it? I think one of his problems is he tends to rely more on the government than most conservative evangelicals are comfortable with. So I think the more scrutiny he gets, especially in the last few days during the debate, the glitter is starting to fade a little bit on him.
So I think they are probably still going to get behind him because of his values. I think he is definitely going to pull many, many evangelicals because of his values.
I for one am not sold though.
CP: Is there anything you like to add?
I would encourage people to get my book - both for people who don’t consider themselves evangelicals and for those who do consider themselves evangelicals. I based everything on the Bible so it isn’t Dave Jeffers thinking only. I attack all the big issues that we are facing and show it in light of what scripture says. It is a primer, i a quick read and will give you a taste of where we are at and why we take the stance we do.
Dave Jeffers is a retired Army Master Sergeant who served on active duty for 22 years. He is also a Sunday school teacher, a lay preacher, and a military instructor in his home state of Florida.
