Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land has joined other evangelical leaders in opposing an immigration reform proposal if it continues to treat homosexual partners the same as heterosexual married spouses.
The president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission signed onto a June 4 statement from the religious rights law firm Liberty Counsel taking exception to a same-sex partners provision in federal legislation being proposed by Sen. Charles Schumer, D.-N.Y.
The bill, which has yet to be introduced, would enable same-sex partners from overseas to become legal citizens of this country in the same way heterosexual spouses of United States citizens are now able to gain citizenship, according to Liberty Counsel.
"Same-sex domestic partnerships will doom any effort for bipartisan support of immigration and will cause religious conservatives to withdraw their support," Liberty Counsel Chairman Mathew Staver said in the statement. "If same-sex domestic partnerships are included, the immigration bill will have no chance of passing."
In the one-page statement, Staver, Land and the other signers questioned whether Schumer and President Obama "are more interested in pandering to special interest groups" than they are addressing immigration reform.
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SOURCE: Baptist Press
Compiled by Tom Strode, Washington bureau chief for Baptist Press.
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