{"id":199258,"date":"2007-08-20T05:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/20\/secular-authorities-should-not-allow-churches-to-provide-sanctuary\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T05:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T10:48:00","slug":"secular-authorities-should-not-allow-churches-to-provide-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/20\/secular-authorities-should-not-allow-churches-to-provide-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Secular Authorities Should Not Allow Churches to Provide Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/08\/19\/immigration.activist.ap\/index.html\">Elvira Arellano, who has been claiming sanctuary in a church for about a year has been arrested<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that a number of people on either side of the issue will either see her as a victim of a system that would separate her from her son, or as a law breaker hiding behind that same son.  (Truth be told, I&#8217;m on the harsher side of this)<\/p>\n<p>The bigger picture has nothing to do with immigration or children.  It has to do with the fact that federal, state, and local authorities allowed a church to grant her sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of Church as sanctuary from law enforcement is a throwback to established religions in Europe, and something that the founding fathers specifically wanted to eliminate.<\/p>\n<p>I would argue that when a church wants to claim &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; society, and law enforcement in particular, is under a specific obligation to seize that person with all deliberate speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvira Arellano, who has been claiming sanctuary in a church for about a year has been arrested. I understand that a number of people on either side of the issue will either see her as a victim of a system that would separate her from her son, or as a law breaker hiding behind that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}