By REY FLORES
I was reflecting on immigration and family issues just before President Donald Trump on June 20 issued his executive order.
The fake news media continue to push their anti-Trump narrative, and the separation of illegal immigrant families has been the left-wing’s latest political soup du jour.
Images and videos of crying mothers and their little children were broadcast and published through all forms of communications media. All were deliberately designed to pull on the heartstrings of the American public at large.
Some fake news clowns even referred to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers as “Trump Detention Centers.” Little, if anything, has ever been mentioned about the squalor and filth many illegal immigrants lived in at those same detention centers during the Obama administration.
Some of the adults who accompanied these children are not even their parents, but child-traffickers who pose as family in order to dupe the system and continue to provide victims to the child-trafficking sex industry.
Democrat operatives have milked this issue for all it’s worth because they see their own future in these illegal immigrants. The left-wing’s greatest fear has come to fruition as many blacks and Hispanics, their strongest political base, are leaving the Democratic Party plantation in droves. These are blacks and Hispanics who, in my experience and observation, tend to be natural conservatives.
They want these lawbreakers to replace the black and Hispanic votes they’ll be losing in 2018 and 2020, and beyond. This is why voter laws are anathema to the cowering and dishonest left. They want illegals to help them change the course of our nation in their favor, and to the detriment of us U.S. citizens.
As the Democrats fear, so do many of the bishops at the USCCB. In their case, however, they see dollar signs in the form of funds for housing and feeding these illegals, so they too are political pawns in a manufactured crisis.
The breaking up and separation of families is never a good thing, but I found it hypocritical for the USCCB to decry family separation, encouraging Catholics to defy the border security policies of the Trump administration, while not doing anything about another growing problem which is breaking families up inside the Church herself.
What I see is that the bishops don’t really seem to care about the separation of families through divorce. Where is their outcry for the hundreds of thousands of Catholic families who have been tragically separated this way?
According to a November 2013 article in the National Catholic Register:
“The Georgetown center reported in late September that a variety of national surveys show ‘Catholics stand out with only 28 percent of the ever-married having divorced at some point.’
“While 28 percent remains a troubling statistic, the research suggests that this figure compares favorably with the 40 percent divorce rate for those with no religious affiliation, 39 percent for Protestants and 35 percent for those of other religious faiths.
“Overall, 26 percent of all American adults have divorced, whereas 20 percent of Catholics have done so.”
Just the mere fact that Catholics are part of these statistics at all is what’s truly troubling. These statistics only show the divorcing couples, but never entirely show the big picture, as I wonder how many families were separated by these divorces.
Barring physical abuse, there is seldom justification for the Catholic Church to support the divorce of a Catholic marriage. Instead, many Catholics, lay and clergy alike, are now embracing the selfish modern secular “throw-away” culture in which babies can be aborted, marriages thrown away, and children separated from one parent because of divorce.
Instead of counseling Catholic married couples to work through their problems and differences, for the sake of their children especially, Catholic married women are being wrongly encouraged by many clergy and lay people in the Church to defy their marital vows, disrespect and divorce their husbands, become single moms, and literally join the #MeToo movement.
Traditional marriage and family are the most important and vital institutions in the very core of a strong and moral society. That is where it all begins. As the old saying goes, “The way the family goes, so goes the nation.” Church doctrine declares marriage to be permanent and indissoluble.
Why do you think there exists such a push to redefine what gender, marriage, and family mean? There are no gray areas in fundamental Church teachings. There exist absolutes, especially in the Church, not wishy-washy moral relativism.
Separation and divorce may be fine for non-Catholics to practice as they already lack other holy sacraments of the Church, but for the bishops to further exacerbate the problem by handing out annulments like Halloween candy to divorced Catholics is wrong no matter which way you look at it.
With the recent talk of giving Holy Communion to divorced and remarried Catholics, the undermining continues.
Divorce hurts children. Divorce separates families. Children are collateral damage in divorce and no one ever wins. It’s an “everyone loses” game for husband, wife, children, the Church, society, and our future generations.
Why aren’t the tears of these separated families not photographed or broadcast across all media?
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(Contact Rey Flores at reyfloresusa@gmail.com.)
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