Poll: Is Increasing Healthcare Access a Moral/Religious Issue?

While I may believe as a Christian that I have a duty to show my love for God by caring for the unfortunate among my neighbors, the government is NOT the representative or agent of God. It does not have authority to define what my moral and religious duties are, nor to enforce them, nor carry them out against my will.

What about the moral duty "Thou shalt not murder"? President Obama endorses the continuation of unrestricted abortion at the whim of the "mother", up to the very point that the child is emerging naturally from the womb. There should be a name for such women that does not apply to those women who carry their babies to term and love and care for them at great sacrifice. He claimed during the campaign that denying women the ability to kill their own children would be above his pay grade. If he had been running as the Democrat in the election of 1860, instead of Stephen Douglas, would he have disclaimed any ability to make a moral judgment about slavery? When did President Obama repeal one of the Ten Commandments, while claiming that his political opponents were guilty of vilating the commandment "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"? Apparently President Obama gets to pick and choose which of God's commandments he will obey, but he denies the rest of us that option.

He has a twisted sense of scripture. In his discussion about health care with ministers and rabbis, he claimed that Americans have a duty to be "their brothers' keeper, their sisters' keeper." Where is that in scripture? It was a statement made by Cain after he murdered his brother Abel, and was confonted by God, who asked him where his brother Abel was. Both God and Cain knew Cain's guilt, but Cain chose to make the hyperbolic statement "Am I my brother's keeper?" Cain referred to Abel as if he were an animal, to be "kept" and controlled by Cain. God nowhere commanded Cain, or anyone else, to be Abel's "keeper". While there are commands to "love thy neighbor", we are not commanded to take complete responsibility for the care and feeding of anyone beyond our own families. Indeed, God could well ask the women who procure unnecessary abortions "Where is your child?" And if they responded "Am I my child's keeper?" God could answer "Yes". But the consistent application of a principle is not Reverend Obama's strong suit.

Reverend Obama's version of the Parable of the Good Samaritan would have the Samaritan leave the robbery victim by the roadside while he ran ahead on the trail to Jerusalem and demanded that the Priest and the Levite give him money to help the poor man. Obama wants to be compassionate with other people's money.

In his discussion with the ministers, Obama said that Americans were obligated to pay for other people's health care because they are "wealthy". Is this the same president who said the current economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression? He is a liar, or suffering Fiscal Schizophrenia.

Raymond Takashi Swenson of WA 12:28PM September 10, 2009