“…it is difficult to understand how any American can consider law-and-order “supreme” when one of this nation’s most celebrated moments was the hooliganism we call the Boston Tea Party, and when this nation itself was founded on overthrowing not just a law but an entire government. Our Declaration of Independence is nothing but an explanation to the world for this law-defying act.”

This quote was from a great follow-up article in Christianity Today about the “law-and-order” response of many Christians in today’s immigration debate. As I stated earlier, I’m not a believer in random lawlessness. I don’t believe, however, that the law of government - on its own - is the supreme dictation of God’s moral law.

Also interesting from the article was a brief list of biblical lawbreakers-as-heroes. The one that stood out to me was Rahab, who hid the spy’s in Jericho during their survey of the land. Now I’m strongly against the atrocity & injustice experienced in much of human trafficking industry, but reading the Rahab story through the lens of immigration, would that make Rahab an early-form coyote?

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