By Mark Tooley, American Spectator

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) has adopted a new pro–liberalized immigration stance that is creating ripples among its conservative membership. Although NAE had touted its board’s supposedly unanimous backing, at least one prominent NAE member, the Salvation Army, has apparently already disavowed it.

Professing to represent 30 million U.S. evangelicals, NAE has just over 40 member denominations, the largest of which appears to be the nearly 3 million member Assemblies of God.

Essentially the NAE has endorsed the failed Comprehensive Immigration Act (CIR) of 2007, calling for a path to citizenship for illegals that critics call amnesty, and urging “a realistic program to respond to labor needs.”NAE’s news release unequivocally announced, “NAE Approves Resolution Supporting Comprehensive Immigration Reform.”

Subcommittee chair Chuck Schumer, Democrat U.S. Senator from New York, excitedly embraced NAE’s position as a tacit endorsement for his own effort to revive CIR.

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