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    Making OC Christians Love Jesus

    Gustavo Arellano on the struggles major OC evangelical leaders are finding in pushing their congregations to accept amnesty for illegal immigrants.

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    By Gustavo Arellano • Apr 29, 2013 • 3m Listen

    While Congress currently debates a proposed bill that would grant some type of amnesty to the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants, a different debate is happening in some of Orange County's major evangelical churches. Pastors are joining other Christian leaders to push for immigration reform, but they're finding resistance among their congregants, some of who are actually leaving their churches in protest against their pro-immigrant pastors. Can you be Christian in OC yet ignore Leviticus 19:34?

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      Gustavo Arellano

      columnist, LA Times

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