The good folks at Faith in Public Life catch Lou Dobbs in action vs. the Rev. Derrick Harkins, pastor of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, and a member of the Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform coalition put together through Jim Wallis' Sojourners.

[..]t's amazing to see Dobbs jabbing again and again at Harkins, searching for something to pounce on. Dobbs just can't get his head around the idea that immigrants deserve compassion, and he thinks Harkins is clearly arrogant to disagree with him.[..]

That's odd. Dobbs didn't exactly breathe fire when those noted Christians Gary Bauer and Deal Hudson came out in opposition to immigration reform.

He's practically dripping with condescension and hostility. He cannot understand that someone like Harkins would have an agenda that extended beyond the boundaries of the individual soul, and it really pisses him off to find that he won't back away from it. He clearly has no concept that "saving one's soul" might have something to do with the search for social justice, or that Christian ethics might involve something more than reading public opinion polls. Harkins tries to show him that doing the right thing is in this case doing the popular thing, but he's having none of it.