Comments on: Clergy Know About Health Care Rationing

By: klynn

klynn — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:44:23 +0000

Thanks for this post Peterr! It would be great to start a running “stories” post where clergy could log-in and retell their health care stories from a ministry perspective due to shut-in and hospital visits.

Forwarded this link to some pastor friends.

By: gordonsowner

gordonsowner — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:16:57 +0000

Actually, clergy are also suffering from this health care fiasco. I have a relative who is a preacher’s wife of a small non-denominational evangelical church (hence no financial support other than direct support from the congregation), and she now has Celiacs. Well, unofficially, as if the doctor officially diagnoses her, she gets her insurance dropped, so they are conspiring not to get diagnosed. The husband, who is very right of center, actually agonized and finally voted for Obama just on the issue of health care (as is my experience, the right loves to rail against government ‘excess’ unless they are the ones in need of its help).

By: AngelsAwake

AngelsAwake — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:15:32 +0000

What.

By: Gitcheegumee

Gitcheegumee — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:01:40 +0000

And just to give equal time to the Catholic constituency, this is a very interesting piece:

Denver archbishop warns against ’spirit of adulation’ surrounding …It didn’t say Obama speaks the truth, it said that Obama, like Christ, is the truth. … I am so glad a prince of the Church is speaking out against the falseness of ….. denied health care to children, and used torture in the name of security. … Archbishop Chaput responds to Pelosi-Pope meeting …
www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=15176 - Cached - Similar

By: hychka

hychka — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:45:34 +0000

Thanks for the heads up!

My 16 relatives living in TX keep trying to get us to move down there and I hate the politics so…and the heat. So I told your favorite Senator, who doesn’t like getting e-mailed, I won’t be coming and copied all 16 (stupid, like who’d put up with that!) relatives.

By: maximus7

maximus7 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:42:47 +0000

We need single payer

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http://bit.ly/HR676

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By: AngelsAwake

AngelsAwake — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:42:31 +0000

Good grief, I wonder when Beck will finally lose his mind and just bite someone on television. You know it’s coming.

By: kevsters

kevsters — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:40:58 +0000

Glenn Beck just keeps getting crazier. In the middle of a debate on health care, he actually say that the government mandates that schools teach girls that they can have as many babies as they want and to not listen to their parents.

I swear. Here is the clip.

http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2427

By: AngelsAwake

AngelsAwake — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:40:49 +0000

He’s meaning liberal religious people. Conservative religious people have no qualms about it.

By: Twain

Twain — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:40:32 +0000

Well, the Southern Baptists fall into a category all their own – as do mother-in-laws. They are fully aware that no one is going to make them stop so they do what they want. The ministers who are trying to follow the law are not speaking out. Someone might get their knickers in a twist because that “brother” might be brown.