To the editor:
The Mission and Justice Team of the Barrington Congregational Church, UCC, would like to share some of the pastoral letter issued by the National Leadership of the United Church of …
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To the editor:
The Mission and Justice Team of the Barrington Congregational Church, UCC, would like to share some of the pastoral letter issued by the National Leadership of the United Church of Christ on June 15 in response to the crisis at our southern border. In part the letter reads:
"The United Church of Christ has long been a supporter of migrant families seeking refuge within our borders from intolerable and unsafe conditions in their homelands. As people of God committed to the sacredness of all creation and the sanctity of every life, we are compelled to heed the cries of families now being violently torn apart at our borders for political expediency and profitability. Such violent acts are unnecessarily punitive and place at risk the physical, emotional, psychological, spiritual, and developmental stability of hundreds of families who now find themselves separated, caged, and commodified in a strange land.
"All of our sacred texts, no matter the faith, identify the disregard of the humanity of the vulnerable as sin. And God hears the cries of God's people. The plight of black and brown migrant families whose children are ripped from their care cannot be the policy of a civilized land. We've been here before. Our nation's history bears witness to a legacy of lost love. We separated the children of Native people from their families. We separated the children of enslaved people from their families. We separated the children of Japanese people from their families. Many of these families were never made whole again. This legacy of white supremacist ideology is idolatrous and leaves an indelible mark of evil that can only be redeemed by a conscious act of spiritual repentance and repair."
We urge readers to join us in contacting our Congressional leaders and demanding that they end this dangerous and inhumane policy.
The complete text can be found at: http://www.ucc.org/news_ucc_leaders_keep_families_together_06152018
Thanks so much,
Ann Doran
Barrington
Ms. Doran is co-chair of the Barrington Congregational Church UCC Mission & Justice Team.