A local service club announced...
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A local service club announced that it had invited the mayor of a rural town to speak
about their controversial ordinance to penalize city businesses that hire illegal immigrants
as well as landlords who rent to them. Last summer, a federal judge ruled the ordinance
was unconstitutional; the mayor plans to appeal the decision.
When word of the controversial meeting was announced, third-year seminary student, Jennifer Williams, decided to protest the meeting. She had spent part of the previous summer on an educational trip to Mexico. The focus of her trip was to study issues surrounding illegal immigration and its causes.
"Part of what our group does is find just and humanitarian responses to what our communities are doing in response to the issue," she told a reporter. Her hope in protesting was to raise awareness in the community. She asked the service club president for permission to speak at a future meeting to present "the other side" of the issue. The club president refused to offer her a time to speak.
A dozen to two dozen students were expected to protest what Jennifer feels is an injustice. The group gave handouts with information gathered from their recent trip to club members as they entered the building. "I feel like this effort is necessary," Jennifer states. "I owe it to the people I met in Mexico to speak out on initiatives that dilute civil rights and that are very prejudiced," Jennifer says.
Speaking the word of God, the prophet Isaiah charged the people, "I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness."
When word of the controversial meeting was announced, third-year seminary student, Jennifer Williams, decided to protest the meeting. She had spent part of the previous summer on an educational trip to Mexico. The focus of her trip was to study issues surrounding illegal immigration and its causes.
"Part of what our group does is find just and humanitarian responses to what our communities are doing in response to the issue," she told a reporter. Her hope in protesting was to raise awareness in the community. She asked the service club president for permission to speak at a future meeting to present "the other side" of the issue. The club president refused to offer her a time to speak.
A dozen to two dozen students were expected to protest what Jennifer feels is an injustice. The group gave handouts with information gathered from their recent trip to club members as they entered the building. "I feel like this effort is necessary," Jennifer states. "I owe it to the people I met in Mexico to speak out on initiatives that dilute civil rights and that are very prejudiced," Jennifer says.
Speaking the word of God, the prophet Isaiah charged the people, "I have given you as a covenant to the people, a light to the nations, to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness."
