The fundamentalist religious loons at James Dobson's Family Research Council have put out a public statement stating that the ACA legislation, which in it's basest format is primarily about helping more uninsured Americans gain access to basic and affordable health care, equates to "tyranny" and is a cause worth killing and dying for:
Obamacare is tyranny, heretofore unimagined in the U.S. Advocates laugh off the House vote to repeal, insisting that the law - affirmed by the Congress, the President and the Supreme Court - is a done deal. But they underestimate the power of prayer and the determination of the American people to remain free. Some are willing, for the false security of government-run health care, to help create an over-reaching, overly powerful federal government that will use unlimited federal debt and oppressive tax and enforcement to finance it; others are not! Even if it appears to be flickering, there is still a flame of liberty burning in America. There are still God-fearing American patriots among the American people, who, like Patrick Henry, would rather die than allow it to go out.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/theyd-rather-die.html
This is healthcare these people are talking about. HEALTH CARE FOR FUCK SAKE!! These people are quite simply put - unhinged, hateful lunatics.
While I myself have some concerns and questions about ACA, the fact that somebody in this country had the goddamn courage to take up the fight and bring to light the fact that 1 in 8 Americans has absolutely no health insurance whatsoever and that it is costing this country dearly and will continue to do so until the whole system implodes, is a step in the right direction any way you sanely and objectively look at it.
All that the James Dobson and teabagger types of the world can do is stand around, wrap themselves in the flag, toss out meaningless biblical quotes and distort history. They have no solution, no vision, no plans, and no demonstrable concern about this major crisis that is ripping away at the under fabric of this country's social support system. They are selfish, myopic fools who believe that the holy business pairing of their invisible cloud being and the free market fairies is going to magically fix everything for us all.
I have to be honest with you - these people frighten me a helluva lot more than the bearded religious maniacs living in caves over in Afghanistan/Pakistan do. Why? Because they're already here among us in great numbers - and like the snakes and worms that they are, they are burrowing themselves into all facets of our government and corporate infrastructures.
Go educate yourself on the subject of Christian Reconstructionism. Tell me exactly what is it that distinguishes Dobson and his ilk from what the Taliban are doing in Afghanistan or what Al-Qaeda is trying to do in several Muslim nations around the world? Unchecked religious fanaticism in any form is a direct threat to secular government. It is a direct threat to representative democracy. It is a direct threat to free speech and free thought, freedom of the press and freedom of religion. It is a threat that needs to be confronted - and the more forcefully, the better.
It simply boggles my senses that here we are in the year 2012 and we have a wide swath of people in our society who wouldn't blink an eye at the thought of one of their fellow Americans dying prematurely and unnecessarily due to lack of access to basic medical care. I refuse to think of these people as true Christians. I am convinced that the Christ I have read about would be abhorred by these people and the way in which they have co-opted and perverted his teachings. No - they are not Christians. They are, quite simply put, just awful human beings.
"But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just." [Luke 14:13 & 14.]
----TFG
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