October 22, 2007
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10/21/07 -
A New York Reader Says Drop Michelle Malkin;
Peter Brimelow Responds
A CT Catholic Reader Faces A Choice: Her Church Or Her Country
From: Sunnye Ann
Rosasco (e-mail
her)
Peter Brimelow’s
Column:
Time To Rethink Immigration (II): Freeing America From
The Immigration Gulag
Now we
Roman Catholics have to endure the frustration of
Catholic Charity’s affiliation with the Department
of Homeland Security with regard to illegal aliens.
DHS has
approved Catholic Charities’ to practice before the
Board of Immigration Appeals in matters of immigration
and naturalization. In other words, it can now lobby for
aliens as insiders.
In his June 2006
article,
Peter Brimelow wrote that one day Catholics might
have to make a choice between their country and their
Church.
I didn’t believe
him; I never thought it could happen. But Brimelow was
right and I am sick at heart.
What a choice to
have to make!
Rosasco worked for the
State of Connecticut for 32 years and is now involved in
a Danbury CT-based group, US Citizens for Immigration
Law Enforcement, website
here.
Peter Brimelow writes:
Ms. Rosasco is referring to this passage on
immigration’s destructive impact on America’s national
fabric:
“I can see this in
microcosm in editing
VDARE.COM. We are a coalition. Many of our
strongest articles are by
patriotic American Catholics
articulately appalled by
much of their
hierarchy's relentless support
for immigration. But I
increasingly get equally articulate articles from
non-Catholic readers who have
simply decided,
on the basis of the bishops’
behavior, that the Catholic Church is a
Bad Thing and, in
particular, incompatible with the survival of the
American nation-state.
“In effect, the post-1965
immigration disaster, and the bishops’ foolish response
to it, threatens to revive a controversy about the
Catholic Church in America that had been dormant since
the
days of
Nation
editor Paul Blanshard’s 1949 best-selling polemic
American Freedom and Catholic Power
celebrated 1960
speech to Protestant
ministers in Houston, which was in many ways an answer.
American Catholics may face the prospect of being forced
by their bishops to chose between their country and
their
faith.
Americans who are not
Catholics face the prospect of losing not just their
country but their friends.”
I feel this looming
tragedy the more acutely for having subsequently
married my second Irish Catholic wife.
