Just make them meet in the basement, on another night

This paragraph encapsulates neatly how religion and politics on the right go together, just in the service of different aims.

Exclusionary groups want to keep immigrants out. Evangelicals want to recruit them and use them to keep other people- and taxes- down.

• The DREAM Act is opposed by religious right groups like Concerned Women for America and Eagle Forum, but Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which includes representatives of the National Association of Evangelicals, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, supports it.

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