To show solidarity with illegal immigrant families being held in ICE detention centers, an Indianapolis church has erected a cage in which the Holy Family is kept inside like animals.
According to Fox local, “Christ Church Cathedral put up the display at their lawn on Monument Circle overnight. It shows statues of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in a cage.”
On their Twitter page, the church declared, “On our lawn tonight we placed The Holy Family…in #ICE detention.” Accompanying the display is a sign saying #EveryFamilyIsHoly, which is then translated into Spanish as, #CadaFamiliaEsSagrada. Behold:
No indication has been as to how long the display will remain, only that the church leaders say it will continue so long as families are detained. The church has offered no deference to prudence or a nation’s right to enforce its own border, opting instead to send out empty platitudes of virtue-signaling.
On Sunday, the church tweeted, “We pray for those families separated at the border. May God protect them and watch over them.”
“We heard a lot of the Bible quoted, people trying to say what scripture justifies and doesn’t justify,” said Stephen Carlsen, dean of Christ Church Cathedral. “Our tradition, our sacred traditions, are crystal clear. People who come to us for safety, for refuge are just like everyone in our families.”
“Our job as faithful people is to welcome people with mercy,” said Carlsen. “Our religious images are supposed to remind us where God’s heart is. God’s heart is compassion. With people who are in need, and our heart should be there, too.”
Many church members joined at the Indiana Statehouse this past weekend to protest the Trump Administration’s policy on immigration, which was first enacted during the Obama administration. President Trump also signed an executive order demanding that families be kept together, so it’s obvious that this church just wants open borders.
The Episcopalian Church, of which CCC is a member, has almost no affiliation with the Gospels at this point in history, having rejected the words “husband and wife” from their marriage liturgy, rejected masculine pronouns in reference to God, and endorsed homosexual marriage as compatible with Christian teaching.