This article from the Christian Broadcasting Network asserts, "...other evangelical Christians are torn between a biblical belief in law and order, and the commandment to love one's neighbor." What? A "biblical belief in law and order"?! Talk about twisting scripture to meet man's ways...

Our Judeo-Christian God has a hankering for righteousness, which is why He blessed us with the Law and various Covenants, that we might express His righteousness by walking the walk and talking the talk. He promulgates Law for pedagogical purposes – to instruct us. As for the weight that we should accord secular authority, Jesus set us straight on what's expected: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's." Nowhere in that, or elsewhere in scripture, do we see a "biblical belief in law and order," as if righteousness amounted to an accumulation of unbroken proscriptions (a strategy Jesus expressly warned us against: "For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven"). Toeing the line – as such – conforms to the Christianist belief in law and order.

The Christian view on illegals: Should law or mercy prevail?
There has been a lot of debate over immigration, and it is an issue that has also divided the faith community.

Maryada Vallet believes that, as an evangelical Christian, she is called to offer aid to illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border. She walks the hot Arizona desert looking for illegals in need of aid.

"When we find people on patrol, we give them a migrant package usually," said Vallet.

She and her colleagues provide food, first aid, and even carry the exhausted to medical facilities.

"I really believe that Jesus would be here with us," Vallet said, "If He were alive today."

The majority in the Hispanic church agree.

But other evangelical Christians are torn between a biblical belief in law and order, and the commandment to love one's neighbor.

When Marc Galli, the editor of Christianity Today, wrote an editorial praising illegal immigrants, he received a flood of angry emails.

Galli said, "The feeling was that if we allow illegal immigrants in and if we don't hold them accountable – the illegal immigrants that are here – we are going to have anarchy.

"What's concerning to some evangelicals," said Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, "is that immigration has gotten out of control. And there's the illegal side of immigration – not the legal side – that causes concern."

But in the end, Vallet believes her response to the immigration debate is in line with what Jesus would do.

She said, "There is law, of course, but there is also this thing called grace."

Vallet maintains that on this issue, some of her fellow believers need a change of heart.