Did Jesus say, “Make the immigrants suffer?”
The juxtaposition of two measures passed by the Minnesota Legislature in the just-concluded special session demonstrates that the place is half filled, anyway. with spectacular boobs and hypocrites. I refer to the decision to remove undocumented immigrants from eligibility for MinnCare, on one hand, and the continued funding for parochial schools allegedly teaching the tenets of Christianity on the other. It’s a good thing that the Republican caucuses don’t suffer from cognitive dissonance, or there would be brain matter all over the Rotunda.
I wrote about the parochial school funding issue earlier during the session. I asked why we should spend public money to support the schools of Christian religious sects that are so deeply anti-LGBT+ (they are the ones that run the sectarian schools), contrary to the public policy of Minnesota. Jimmy Schultz, the altar boy from Annandale, in a tweet referred to in the linked story, says it’s a matter of fairness. The hell it is. It’s about supporting religious discrimination. We should never have had any part of it.
Turning now to the defenestration of undocumented immigrants from MinnCare: I wrote about that issue during the session, too. The same people — people like Crone De Muth (like crème de menthe, only bitter with floral notes of the grievance flower), Sunday School Harry Niska, and Friar Tuck Wally Hudson — who bray feverishly for parochial school education, are oblivious to large swaths of the social gospel of Jesus Christ.
These are small, unserious blowhards, feckless jerks.
The undocumented are contributors to their communities and the state. They are how you’ll get you roof replaced after the next hailstorm, or how your grandma is looked after in the nursing home. They also pay taxes: income and sales taxes to the state. Illness and disease do not spare the undocumented. It is ludicrous and appalling that they are denied the ability to participate in a health insurance program they help to fund.
Cruelty is a feature here, not a bug.
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