Are You An Immoral Un-American Evil Monger?

The following is from garybauer@cwfpac.com and is worth your time.

You know things are getting desperate for the Left when Democrats suddenly “get religion.” That’s what happened yesterday as President Obama turned to the leaders of the Religious Left to help him sell healthcare reform to an increasingly skeptical public.

In a conference call organized by the usual suspects on the Religious Left – Sojourners, the National Council of Churches, the Unitarian Univeralists, etc., – Obama said passing healthcare reform was a moral obligation and he exhorted religious leaders to speak out from their pulpits in support of his agenda. The president accused opponents of healthcare reform of “bearing false witness,” citing issues like taxpayer-subsidized abortion coverage as one example. (Click here to read a story about one of the president’s own fabrications in this debate.) I won’t accuse the president of “bearing false witness,” but I can only assume that he is unfamiliar with the legislation.

Our report last Thursday covered the controversial issue of taxpayer-subsidized abortion in considerable detail. We have noted that pro-abortion groups like NARAL are demanding abortion be covered. We have noted that every Republican amendment to explicitly prevent abortion from being covered has been defeated. We noted this quote from Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), “Abortion will be covered as a benefit by one or more of the healthcare plans available to Americans, and I think it should be.”

It insults the intelligence of the American people to suggest that any plan that passes this liberal Congress won’t subsidize abortion. But if the president is as serious as his rhetoric suggests, I encourage him to issue a veto threat for any bill that covers abortion. As of now, the Associated Press acknowledges, “Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions.”

Almost as bad as Obama’s hyperbole is the Left’s hypocrisy. The Bible states, “I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live…” Whenever conservatives insist that our laws should protect the life of unborn children, the Left screams, “You have no right to impose your moral values on society!” But when Obama tells religious leaders that it is a moral duty to back government-run healthcare, the Left is silent and the media yawn.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid recently made headlines for suggesting that taxpayers opposed to socialized healthcare were “un-American” and “evil mongers.” Not to be outdone, President Obama has just suggested that they are immoral. When Obama claims that passing his healthcare reform bill is the moral thing to do, he is also claiming that it is immoral to oppose it. So to be clear, if you oppose ObamaCare, Democrat leaders have labeled you are an immoral “un-American evil monger.”


But Wait, There’s More…

Ed Schultz, MSNBC latest leftwing pundit, is also pontificating on the morality of socialized healthcare. Schultz told us that Jesus healed the sick and didn’t ask where their health insurance cards were. (And I suppose, in Schultz’s mind, Obama can walk on water too.) Do these liberals who want to redefine marriage really want to ask the question, “What would Jesus do?” Is a politician who attended the church of a racist pastor for 20 years in any position to lecture Christians about the proper role of government? Let me take a moment to suggest what Jesus would not do.

He would not claim that the right to destroy one million children a year is moral. He would not stand by while the plug was pulled on a disabled woman in Florida against her family’s wishes. He would not stand by as a government panel denies folks hip replacements and other treatments. Jesus did not advocate using Big Government to redistribute wealth.

If the Left wants to use the standard of “What would Jesus do?” I’m happy to have that debate. But I suspect they will be back to screaming about “walls of separation” in short order.