The U.S. religious left is wading into the health care debate and teaming up with President Obama to help promote his plan that would provide health insurance to roughly 46 million Americans. We speak to two leaders of the religious left, Rev. Jennifer Butler of Faith in Public Life and Rabbi David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism about their thoughts on service, faith, and the public option.
Faithful America is a coalition of faith-based organizations working with President Obama to reform health care. They are sponsoring a call-in program with the president on August 19th. For more information, head to Faithful America.org. Here is the ad they have just released to support their cause:
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It is shocking that an issue like this could be a "deal breaker." You don't even know if there would be more abortions if they were openly publicly funded; you do know the ones that occur would be safer. You do know that without health-care reform tens of millions of Americans will remain without proper health coverage, they will be thrust upon the state in one uneconomic way or the other, and the national interest will not be served because the bill even for the favored few who have good jobs will get disproportionately greater, eating into their income more every year.
I strongly favor the "public option," but I am not so focused on a single issue that I would throw the baby out with the bath water if it were not there.
I know this is shocking, but members of the United States Congress lie. Rep. Virginia Fox (R-NC) said a couple of months ago on the floor of the House that the brutal beating and torture of Matthew Shepherd was "a hoax," a contention she was obliged to retract in short order. She's nuts. I wonder when she will retract her latest lie.
Leviticus says to care for the elderly and the poor, I see that as giving quality health care to everyone and letting the elderly live and end their life as they wish.
It's a good idea to extend coverage to everyone, but this bill's expansion of abortion coverage, leading to many more abortions, and leanings toward euthanasia are deal breakers on moral grounds.