Trump’s sacred religious family values
The hypocritical rat has done it.
The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it was expanding religious freedom protections for doctors, nurses and other health care workers who object to performing procedures like abortion and gender reassignment surgery, satisfying religious conservatives who have pushed for legal sanctuary from the federal government.
The new steps, which include the creation of an oversight entity within the Department of Health and Human Services called the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, are the latest efforts by President Trump to meet the demands of one of his most loyal constituencies. They coincide with Mr. Trump’s planned address on Friday to abortion opponents at the annual March for Life in Washington.
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Eric D. Hargan, the acting secretary of health and human services, said that the creation of the new civil rights unit carried out an executive order issued last year by Mr. Trump, who said that religious people would no longer be “bullied by the federal government because of their religious beliefs.”
Cool. So if their religious beliefs tell them they have to whip their children for disobedience and anything else they consider wicked, Trump would protect them too? He thinks religious people should not be subject to any laws if their religious beliefs don’t match the laws?
How about that interesting couple in California who’ve been starving and torturing their many children for years? If they have a Religious Belief that they get to do that, does Trump think ok then?
Social conservatives said the new unit would be a bulwark of religious liberty.
“President Trump’s promises are becoming a reality,” said Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council. “Americans should not be forced to choose between their faith and their desire to help patients.”
But they don’t desire to help patients if they think those patients are doing something a church doesn’t like. They’re not campaigning to be allowed to help patients, they’re campaigning to be allowed to refuse to help patients. If they have a desire to help patients then why are they so eager to be able to refuse to do so?
Outside the religious conservative movement, the recent moves have won little applause.
Fatima Goss Graves, the president of the National Women’s Law Center, a research and advocacy group, said that, far from protecting religious liberty, the new unit would protect health workers who “use their religious or moral beliefs to deny patients care.”
My point exactly. Let us hear no more about the refuseniks’ desire to help patients.
In that case, we should make up a list of all doctors, hospitals, and pharmacists who refuse to help patients that need it, and make sure the only patients they ever see are those who agree with them.
After all, if students can go to Turning Point to complain that their teachers are too liberal, why can’t we have a site where we can complain that our doctors are too conservative?
I like the idea of a list of un-cooperative health care workers. Could we call it “Iknklast’s List”? That would probably go over better than “Sanctimonious Assholes Who Think Their Values Are More Important Than Your Life List”
There’s other ways of dealing with such people:
Find them, dox them, and #Gamergate the shit out of them.
@BKiSA #2 – can we not do the 3rd part of that? Do we really want to stoop to that level? Death threats and rape threats don’t suddenly become OK just because in this case we happen to be the side who know they’re on the side of justice.
Can’t we just tell people to try and steer clear of these healthcare “providers”, and the institutions they work for, where at all possible?
I think pickets on the sidewalk might be a good start. But are there enough people to hold signs in front of all the Catholic ‘health care’ venues?
@Karellen: I’m an ends justifies the means kind of guy and have generally come to the conclusion that bad actors can’t understand anything except fear.
This also makes me a terrible person.
@BKiSA #6 – what about the effect that those sorts of actions might have on potential allies, who might be reluctant to join a cause that appears to employ such tactics? Those sorts of means will have many ends, not only the ones you’re specifically thinking of.