Sanctimonious, aren't we?

Seven Catholic bishops based in Minnesota have publicly condemned the arrests of 230 illegal aliens at the Swift plant in Worthington, Minnesota, claiming that "Such raids … violate the rights of workers and the dignity of work."

Say, how about the rights of American citizens to have their borders protected, and their identities not stolen? The article reports that "About 20 of those arrested were criminally indicted for document fraud; 15 of those also were indicted for aggravated identity theft." Yep, their being here didn't cause any additional crimes to be committed, none at all.

The bishops also seem to be in an uproar because the arrests took place on something called "the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe". Since this is not a holiday in America, I don't know why this really matters. English police don't refuse to arrest Americans that commit crimes there on Thanksgiving, either. Should I file a protest? Also, if this was such a holy day, why were those people at work? If it's so important to them, shouldn't they be home feasting, or doing whatever it is they do on this holiday?

One of the bishops said of the entire event "There's an evilness to do it on that day. There's an evilness." Well, I can think of a whole lot of "evilness" on the part of the Catholic Church as well, starting with the Pope telling the millions of people in poor countries that contraception is a sin, deluding these people into having more children than they can feed. It also seems to me that these bishops should worry less about law enforcement doing its job, and a little more time worrying about their policy of shuffling pedophile priests from parish to parish for the last 50 years. What about that "evilness", fellas?

On my recent trip to Europe, I noticed that at least 3 cities had museums wholly devoted to torture devices, most used by the Catholic Church during the Inquisition to extract "confessions" from people that had the stones to tell the Church to pound sand. Thankfully, they can no longer employ these devices, and I am free to tell the Church, "Take your sanctimonious opinions and stick them up your berobed asses".