I sometimes accompany my wife to her Waukegan IL Lutheran Church, at her request, even though I'm RC. Earlier this year we were abraded by "Nametag Nazis", a cadre of members with ties to State retirement, licensures, and work in secular life; these folks have gotten themselves on steering committees, which ala area RC Churches have annually for years scheduled adult religious/conversion classes for Spring, then cancelled to Fall, thence to Spring, repeat on and on; they all wear neckchain nametags at Mas and are eclipsed by those w/o same yet regularly at Masses; yesterday in his sermon, the Pastor actually said a man had just died from the congregation, and described him specifically as a man "not a member, but a devout and beloved visitor for years"...like I said, those committee folks form the only official "members" including for "stance of all congregants" ephemera.
 
For a couple months, my wife and I experienced not a peep from these folks who back in Lent didn't hate me so much for being RC as they did for supporting Benedict XVI...I understand doing so undercuts their "synergy" with RC Cardinal George in uniting Illinois religions toward their way of thinking. Well, yesterday these folks...despite many empty pews...came in late, HAD to have our pew, and kept pushing us down the whole way; my wife sat elsewhere, I always believing those who make pretense of any religion are to be avoided went all the way out to a small seat by the outer exit to wait for my wife.
 
As best I can make out, the Nametag Nazis so assaulted us due to that RC Bishop, chastised by JPII in and since 1983 and having liberation theology itself condemned by Benedict, "winning" a seat in Latin American government; it appears Nametag Nazis will use this with the RC Church here to bolster Democrats or anyone wishing to keep flooding the USA and Illinois directly with immigrants simple. Rationale appears, ala Pelosi and her Biblical passage re global warming only she can find, to ask how anyone can be Godly and not obey the immigration pleas of clergy...especially now that "change!" is in Latin air.
 
Well, if Benedict were to embrace liberation theology, yawn...in the material sense, does it appear to work its purposes in countries of origin or the USA? Many Lake County IL businesses keep closing w/o relocation announced, area homes keep getting foreclosed, and all that's coming is more New Urban home/strip mall motifs...looking at last year's mortgage fiasco and immigrant costs debacles, does merely struggling to find ever-changing ways to justify it all make it somehow then successful in real life?
 
Oh, and let's not forget those who push for "Godly liberation" also propose that God hates America for its failure to do so, yet embrace abortion as child healthcare, same-sex non-reproduction as a teachable lifestyle, suggest appeasing ALL (even Hamas, Qaeda) liberation theology, and government ownership of all housing with strict HR 1955 powers to States and Towns with green more important than industry; clergy supporting such voice include a Chicago Cardinal who lives in a mansion with chauffeurs and is on the USCCB Executive Committee (quite a solitary light to shine against a Pope one otherwise says is faith infallible, let alone USA parish funds and charities); such clergy also now rely on "proof" such stuff is popular with Hispanics due to Bishop's election...and forget it's SO deadly for him he's lived there 30 years as an anti-government yapper against the dictator, obviously accomplished nothing, won in a place otherwise said to be dubious due to no-trail dictator voting, and will just exhort Bush not to build fences...some engine of faith or change.
 
Be like Benedict XVI re clergy and Pelosi Biblers and God-haters: all are God's creation, even when they err...pray for them; in the secular sense, even if somebody believed getting to a USA mortgage and handouts would forever save them, does it seem in their or a nation's best interests to humor them, or to undercut apostolic efforts and introduce Socialist methods to then make things fit? Or are we Conservatives right: liberation theology and politics, whether Qaedan or Latin American or otherwise, is just a tool of those seeking totalitarian fiefdoms.