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| Religious News Service, Faith Leaders five days ago arrested for protesting GOP healthcare bill outside Senator Mitch McConnell's office in the Capitol, Washington DC |
24 He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. 26 So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. 27 And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?’ 28 He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The slaves said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ 29 But he replied, ‘No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. 30 Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”
Dear GOP Senators:
“The Kingdom of Heaven” which is “God’s Just and Peaceable Reign” will witness your vote on repeal of the ACA or on a vote for McConnellcare/Trumpcare/Ryancare. Some of you may yet be good seed as described in Jesus’ story above – unfortunately you are having to live among the weeds sown by POTUS 45 who has clearly declared himself an enemy to American citizens and their right to Universal Healthcare. 45 has made clear that he intends for millions upon millions of American Citizens not to have Universal Healthcare.
45 has also made clear that he intends for one American in every 830 uninsured Americans to step forward and die because of the lack of Universal Healthcare. 45 expects many of you to be automatons and mindlessly support what he intends for Americans and their healthcare. As a GOP automaton, you GOP senators, are to vote on healthcare exactly as Putinesque aspiring POTUS 45 tells you or 45 will have a temper tantrum and “be very angry”. How childish a statement can a Putinesque aspiring POTUS make? Thankfully 45 does not have the power to snuff out a life as effortlessly as Putin does, though 45 is clear that we are to understand how much he admires Putin and that the American Constitution is archaic and obsolete.
Jesus freely sowed hope and freely sowed healing to any and all who came to him. The only people he could not heal were the rich and powerful. As Jesus said, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The weeds in Jesus story above are the senate colleagues of yours who as 45’s GOP automaton senators who would seek to undo the Medicaid Expansion that gave so many Americans access to comprehensive healthcare. 45 and his GOP automatons pursue this end despite the bipartisan protests of American Governors throughout our land who valiantly stand over and against the insanity 45 will commit on our healthcare system and the lives of Americans who will be harm including seniors, the middle class, the working poor, and those living in grinding poverty.
GOP Senators, some of you may yet be children of God’s Kingdom. Isaiah prophesied of you, prophesied that a time would come upon the Earth when nothing will harm or hurt. You are the key in this time and this place to moving Humanity’s journey forward toward that end through being brave souls willing to establish Single Payer Universal Healthcare. Have the courage to vote “NO” on repeal of the ACA and/or vote “NO” on McConnellcare/Trumpcare/Ryancare. You GOP Senators are supposedly so concerned about skyrocketing healthcare costs, do the one thing that makes the most sense, cuts costs in half, and achieves the greatest efficiencies -- establish Single Payer Universal Healthcare. Warren Buffet, the third richest man in the world, says it makes sense and that we are such a rich country that we can easily afford it. It’s also what every other developed country in the world has done. Stop being so foolish – get the job done. Establish Single Payer Universal Healthcare.
Single Payer Universal Healthcare is akin to gathering the wheat into the barn that will bless American lives with well-being for countless generations to come. The GOP healthcare bill attempts represent nothing more than enemy activity toward American Citizens, an enemy sowing weedy, seedy, and sickening fictions that will mire American lives in suffering and devastation because of healthcare the Congressional Budget Office says Americans will not be able to afford or cannot access.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a work in progress. It takes great sacrifice, one that requires your courage to stand with the governors and citizens of your states – and to do so over and against the GOP POTUS 45 who has never truly understood healthcare and who breaks his campaign promises of Universal Healthcare for everyone. Have courage like the faith leaders who protested McConnellcare/Trumpcare/Ryancare in the photo above this week in the Capitol of our great nation.
POTUS 45 is a man who promises the sky – but always he ends up handing out nothing burgers. One day, the Master will come and the harvest completed and 45 and McConnell and Ryan will be bundled up with all the other weeds like them never to hurt or harm Americans again.
GOP Senators be courageous, be courageous as the faith leaders below who call you to be prophetic agents for God's Just and Peaceable Reign.
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| An ecumenical group of African-American clergy gathers outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2017, in opposition to the proposed budget and the health care bill. RNS photo by Madeleine Buckley |
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