{"id":335,"date":"2007-03-20T05:12:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=335"},"modified":"2012-10-27T07:17:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T14:17:49","slug":"fencing-fantasies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2007\/fencing-fantasies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fencing Fantasies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waxing Reaganesque &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krqe.com\/expanded.asp?ID=20397\">&#8220;Mr. Bush, take down this fence!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Happy talk aside, relations between the two neighbors have worsened since Bush last year signed a law calling for construction of fencing along the long border the two countries share. Calder\u00f3n has ridiculed the fence, likening it to the Berlin Wall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve already posted on this subject <a href=\"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=19\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=130\">here<\/a>, I&#8217;ll not say anything further.<\/p>\n<p>However, there&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/03\/19\/america\/NA-GEN-US-Border-Protest.php\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Church groups led marches along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to protest the use of fences to stop migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 members of churches in Arizona and Mexico marched Sunday on either side of a wall near the town of Naco, which straddles the border.<\/p>\n<p>On the Mexico side, Father Guillermo Coronado of La Iglesia San Jose in Naco, Sonora, said more people need to organize similar demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a sign of what needs to be done in all the border states rather than rejecting and ignoring other human beings,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The greatest gift we have is that we are human beings with a mission to love and be happy. God has no borders.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Se\u00f1or Coronado, a question, please.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does your church have any borders?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, does your church take any action to stop activity it deems immoral?<\/p>\n<p>And finally, do you see any valid parallels between your answers to the previous questions and what you&#8217;re protesting against?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waxing Reaganesque &#8212; &#8220;Mr. Bush, take down this fence!&#8221; Happy talk aside, relations between the two neighbors have worsened since Bush last year signed a law calling for construction of fencing along the long border the two countries share. Calder\u00f3n has ridiculed the fence, likening it to the Berlin Wall. 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