I wonder how so-called Christians would vote.
God, who endows us with life, liberty, property, and the right to pursue happiness, also exhorts individuals to care for the needy, the sick, the homeless, the aged, and those who are otherwise unable to care for themselves.
The health care crisis is a government-induced crisis. Medicare, medicaid and other goverment interventions in health care have caused the rise of prices, and impaired the poor of getting decent health care, even as the government's economic and regulatory policies have undermined the ability of our citizens to obtain work.
Charity, and provision of health care to those in need, is not a Constitutional responsibility of the federal government. Under no circumstances should the taxpayers be obligated, under penalty of law through forced taxation, to assume the cost of providing health care for other citizens. Neither should taxpayers be indentured to subsidize health for persons who enter the country illegally.
The message of Christian charity is fundamentally at odds with the concept of free, public, health care as a right. In many cases, health care provisions by the Federal government are not only misdirected, but morally destructive. It is the intended purpose of civil government to safeguard life, liberty and property - not to take one's money to benefit others. Such redistribution is contrary to the Biblical command against theft.
I encourage individuals, families, churches, civic groups and other private organizations, to fulfill their personal responsibility to help those in need.
