Universal Health Care Against God's Plan

We were pretty much following along with Rev. Creech's arguments against Universal Health Care until he said "Most importantly ... one could only imagine how, over time, it would affect right-to-life issues." Let's get this straight. The most important reasons not to have health care for all is because some poor woman might have an abortion or that someone in a irreversible vegetative state may be allowed to die. Now that really makes sense.-Jake

Rev. Mark H. Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina, writes in The Christian Post that government-funded Universal Health Care is socialism, and as such, goes against God's teachings. God, after all, is a capitalist. Creech bolsters his arguments by quoting not only the apostle Paul but a policy analyst from a conservative public policy think tank.

But toward the end of his article we find out that he's against the government providing health care for all its citizens because of abortion and Terri Schiavo. He writes, "It most certainly would make abortion and euthanasia readily available."

Earlier in his article he say progressive churches espouse "a form of economics that is essentially socialistic principals with a religious veneer." It is this "support and advancement of the welfare state, which by government pre-emption has siphoned away the church's energy and resources for charitable purposes."

Frankly, we don't agree. These outspoken evangelicals certainly appear to have enough energy to politically attack anything with which they do not agree. And from what we have seen, they do not lack for resources. Perhaps if they were really practicing what they preach, there would be no need for the government to provide social services.