The debate on treatment of asylum seekers, read illegal immigrants if you live in the americas, has become hot after the High Court in Australia upheld the Australian offshore detention laws. We now have churches trying to impose a moral compass by invoking sanctuary, an ancient Biblical form of asylum, where a pursued person may claim sanctuary in a church. This opens to way for a test case on constitutional law surrounding the separation of church and state. Do the laws of the land apply inside a church? interesting question. Can the church override the highest court in the land and prevent deportation of asylum seekers? Sanctuary in a church offers none of the creature comforts as might be found in an embassy, the other high profile sanctuary case that has been running in the UK.
It will be interesting to watch the howls of outrage from persons of all political persuasions but particularly from the left
www.abc.net.au/news/2016-...to-asylum-seekers/7138484
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