By Michael Brendan Dougherty
Wednesday, April 01, 2020
Samaritan’s Purse has opened up a tent hospital to help
New Yorkers deal with Coronavirus by taking overflow from Mount Sinai hospital.
But Bill de Blasio and others are concerned. From Gothamist:
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city
will keep a close eye on the Christian fundamentalist group operating a field
hospital in Central Park, amid growing fears that some New Yorkers could face
discrimination and substandard care from the religious organization.
Gothamist notes that Samaritan’s Purse is run by a
“virulently” anti-gay and Islamophobic pastor Franklin Graham. Got that? The
real virus is Evangelicalism. Councilmen are promising to “monitor” the
situation, fearing the practice of discrimination or substandard care.
The New York Times ran an op-ed earlier this week
blaming Evangelicals for inflicting “coronavirus hell” on Americans though
they’ve since changed the title.
For decades, progressives have been saying: “Why are
Evangelicals so obsessed with sex? Why can’t they just do good works and help
the needy?” But with New York in crisis, progressives have apparently decided
that death would be better than letting disgusting, presumptively-criminal
Evangelicals help them.
It’s interesting that Samaritan’s Purse is named after
the Good Samaritan, who, in Christ’s parable, helps the injured man on the side
of the road — despite the fact that he, as a Samaritan, is considered unclean
and not part of the House of Israel.
At least New York is not the type of medieval society
that blames hated religious minorities for plagues.
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