WWJD? Support Health Care Reform, Apparently
WWJD? Support Health Care Reform, Apparently
By Colleen Stufflebeem Friday, November 19, 2010
Basically, you’re an atheist if you don’t support universal health care.
Catholics are against gay marriage, abortion, capital punishment and contraceptives, but what they’re not against is universal healthcare. If you’ve ever wondered if Jesus would be a proponent of the health care reform, now you know. Hell yeah he would!
Pope Benedict XVI, along with other Catholic church leaders, said yesterday at the international papal conference on health care at the Vatican that it is the “moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay.”
I think I just heard a Tea Partier throw up on Mitt Romney.
The Pope continued: “Justice in health care should be a priority of governments and international institutions.” He then said that it should be the concern of all Christians to worry about the “care of man,” and “his inalienable rights,” which he considers universal health care to be.
So I find it interesting that Rep. Steve King, in an interview with Glenn Beck, had this to say about Obama’s health care reform: “They intend to vote on the Sabbath, during Lent, to take away the liberty we have right from God. This is an affront to God.”
Sarah Palin also called the health care reform “downright evil.”
Does this mean Tea Partiers, Sarah Palin and Rep. Steve King are calling a papal plea evil? Doesn’t that constitute blasphemy? Sorry Glenn Beck, it doesn’t get anymore progressive than this.
Pope Benedict XVI wants all governments to protect their citizens’ health by “dedicating the equipment, resources and energy so that the greatest number of people can have access.” Spoken like a true egalitarian.
To really drive home the point that it’s un-Christian to be against universal health care, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone had this to say: “The governments of richer nations with good health care available should practice more solidarity with their own disadvantaged citizens.”
Is it just me or do you think that statement was directed at America?
Now that it’s divinely backed, there’s no use in saying universal health care is an abomination of God. Sorry guys, you’re going to have to rely on death panels again.
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