---fred wrote---
A couple of questions: (i) If we had a similar situation in Goa,
involving migrant workers ("non-Goan", in our case), what would be our
stand? (ii) Could we expect any section in Goa to speak out for the
underdogs?
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I don't know, but perhaps the following familiar passages will prove to
be enlightening and inspiring.
Mathew 22: 1 And Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables and
said: 2 “The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged a
marriage for his son, 3 and sent out his servants to call those who were
invited to the wedding; and they were not willing to come.
4 Again, he sent out other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are
invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are
killed, and all things are ready. Come to the wedding.”’ 5 But they made
light of it and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his
business. 6 And the rest seized his servants, treated them spitefully,
and killed them. 7 But when the king heard about it, he was furious. And
he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their
city.
8 Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who
were invited were not worthy. 9 Therefore go into the highways, and as
many as you find, invite to the wedding.’ 10 So those servants went out
into the highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad
and good. And the wedding hall was filled with guests.
11 “But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who
did not have on a wedding garment. 12 So he said to him, ‘Friend, how
did you come in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
13 Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him
away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth.’ 14 “For many are called, but few are chosen.”
...
35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and
saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first
and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the
Law and the Prophets.”
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Albert Peres
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