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Anti-Health-Care-Reform Claims Gone Wild
By Jacqueline L. Salmon
Religious groups are throwing around the rhetoric hot 'n heavy on health-care reform. The latest missive comes from the conservative group, the Pray in Jesus Name Project, an organization run by former Navy chaplain James Gordon Klingenschmidt.
An e-mail to subscribers of the conservative Web site Humanevents.com has this provocative headline: "Grandmas and Unborn Babies Face Extermination by Obama's 'Health' Care Plan."
It goes on to claim that euthanasia of the elderly is the "first result" of the health-care package. (The Post's Ceci Connolly has debunked that claim.) That taxpayer funded abortion will be available in the health-care package (not according to the Associated Press). A claim I haven't heard before: that Obama will remove Christian prayers and symbols from Government-run hospitals. It doesn't cite the health-care reform package, and I can't find where it's getting its information for that assertion. Maybe somebody can help me here.
The group is soliciting donations for a fax campaign aimed at the 52 Blue Dog Democrats and all 100 Senators asking them to vote against health-care reform.
It's wild out there, folks.
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Jacqueline L. Salmon
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August 10, 2009; 9:45 AM ET
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I am rapidly moving from a position where I can see some merit in the good work that religious groups can achieve to one where I fear that the religious right in the USA has more in common with the irrational lunatics who prime young men to blow themselves up with the promise of "72 Jewish virgins" to provide them carnal delights in paradise.
I am quite convinced that Jesus Christ himself would want nothing to do with the liars and haters who so freely claim to be his most ardent followers, and I see a clear message in the fact that it was the absolute insistance of the religious leaders of the day that saw Him crucified by Romans who would have cared less about his so called "crimes".
I pray that the more gullible members of the right wing will see through their own "Christian Taleban" before their fanatacism further the financial, spiritual and physical recovery from all that ails the USA today.