{"id":9489,"date":"2014-11-22T16:38:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2014-11-22T16:38:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T16:38:48","slug":"not-quite-so-focused-on-the-constitution-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/not-quite-so-focused-on-the-constitution-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite So Focused on the Constitution Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pope-obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pope-obama-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"pope-obama\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pope-obama-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pope-obama-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pope-obama.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/393292\/some-fans-executive-action-2-andrew-stuttaford\">Cross-posted on the Corner (under a different title)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/news\/2014\/14-196.cfm\">The US Conference of Catholic Bishop<\/a>s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON\u2014Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, M.Sp.S., auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, welcomed the news today that the Obama administration will defer deportations for many undocumented immigrants and their families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps I\u2019m being unfair, but it seems to me that the bishops now seem rather less focused on the constitution than they were at the time they were objecting to various aspects of Obamacare coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the <em>National Catholic Reporter<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/immigration-and-church\/millions-could-benefit-obamas-new-immigration-policies\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Catholic groups across the country have been quick to applaud President Barack Obama\u2019s executive order on immigration, but they are equally quick to remind that more work remains to be done before finding a \u201chumane\u201d fix to our country\u2019s immigration system.<\/p>\n<p>The executive order, which the president delivered Thursday in a primetime speech, expands the government\u2019s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and provides temporary relief from deportation for more than 4 million undocumented immigrant parents who have lived in the country for more than five years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally, we are celebrating this announcement,\u201d said Michelle Sardone, legalization program director for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, or CLINIC. \u201cIt\u2019s going to help close to 5 million people. But we\u2019re definitely still working toward finding a permanent solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis a temporary fix,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s still more fighting to be done, to make sure that everyone is included.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Press releases from various Catholic organizations echoed the sentiment\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah yes, there\u2019s always \u201cmore fighting to be done\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ratchet turns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted on the Corner (under a different title). The US Conference of Catholic Bishops: WASHINGTON\u2014Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, M.Sp.S., auxiliary bishop of Seattle and chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, welcomed the news today that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/not-quite-so-focused-on-the-constitution-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[746,15],"tags":[93,185,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9490,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions\/9490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}