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Mar 20, 2006
Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D.
March 20, 2006
The debate continues to rage over Cardinal Mahony's instructions to his priests to ignore future immigration laws while cloaking his justification in biblical verse. He is not the first to do so. Cardinal McCarrick the archbishop of Washington, DC, has also made a similar claim about current immigration laws. It is this author's opinion that such exhortations are prima facie evidence of preaching and practicing sedition. It is further suggested that the rampant, willful continuance of unlawfully 'aiding and abetting' illegal aliens by the Catholic Church, Catholic Charities and others, is ALSO a form of sedition.

Just what IS sedition?

Sedition is a United States "federal crime of advocacy of insurrection against the government [such as the call to defy our laws announced by Cardinal Mahony] OR support for an enemy of the nation during time of war, by speeches [ preaching], or publications [informational packets] and organization [Banding together ~ participating in the coalition ]. Sedition usually involves actually conspiring to disrupt the legal operation of the government [as in advocating the willful disobeyance of our laws] and is beyond expression of an opinion or protesting government policy [ as in willfully 'aiding and abetting' illegal aliens].(1) "Sedition is conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state [ as preached by Father Gutierrez]."(2)

"Wading back into the growing debate over illegal immigration, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony on Tuesday [2/28/06] denounced what he called 'hysterical' anti-immigrant sentiment sweeping California and the nation." (3)

"In his most forceful comments to date, Mahony said he would instruct his priests to defy legislation — if approved by Congress — that would require churches and other social organizations to ask immigrants for legal documentation before providing.................
 
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