Following up on my item yesterday about the Salvation Army distancing itself from the National Association of Evangelicals’ call for amnesty, a couple more NAE member denominations are disavowing the D.C. lobbying group’s immigration resolution. And the defenders of the NAE position are employing the tattered straw men of years past, saying they’re not backing a “blanket amnesty” but rather a path to citizenship, and so on.

I obviously don’t know the internal machinations, but this push for the NAE to back amnesty has been in the works for some time, so I assume it’s partly the handiwork of Richard Cizik, the NAE’s former head man in D.C. who was ousted late last year for backing gay unions, and had been embracing the Left’s global-warming advocacy for some time. I guess then it should be no surprise that Cizik is now a fellow at amnesty-backer George Soros’s Open Society Institute. The site says his work for Soros “will focus on climate change, immigration, and criminal justice.”