In recent comments after visiting Central American refugees in Texas, the Southern Baptists’ emerging point man in the culture wars, Russell Moore, cleverly managed to capitalize on the polarizing problem, even after the public statement of Texas’ Catholic Bishops that “Now is not the moment for inflammatory political rhetoric, but of compassionate and orderly resolution to the conditions of these women and children who are already in a difficult humanitarian situation.”
Moore evidently interpreted this statement to mean that he had permission to engage in the art of subterfuge as long as his message was sufficiently masked by expressions of kindheartedness for the children he had encountered. Even as he melodramatically expressed compassion he also managed to resonate with hardline opponents of immigration reform, implying, for instance, that the onus for the crisis rests on the president.
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