{"id":49627,"date":"2015-02-20T00:27:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T07:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/i-was-sick-and-you-took-care-of-me.html"},"modified":"2015-05-13T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T16:12:09","slug":"i-was-sick-and-you-took-care-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/i-was-sick-and-you-took-care-of-me.html","title":{"rendered":""I was sick and you took care of me""},"content":{"rendered":"

So there's the whole "We don't serve their kind here" kind of discrimination. And there's the "I feel that to bake you a wedding cake would make me complicit in your sin" kind of discrimination.<\/p>\n

But for a doctor to refuse treatment? And not just treatment of, say, a gay patient, but of the baby<\/i> of a lesbian couple?<\/p>\n

And to do so based on "much prayer" (coupled with an odd "I would never judge" addendum)?<\/p>\n

I'm really trying to figure how this Christian (presumably, in context) can reconcile this action, not just with her medical oath, but with Jesus own words.<\/i> From the Parable of the Good Samaritan (http:\/\/goo.gl\/GBGuGR<\/a>), to Matthew 25:31-46 (http:\/\/goo.gl\/3g4Ie7<\/a>), this just seems so antithetical to Christian teaching, no matter what one feels about whether homosexual behavior is sinful.<\/p>\n

I can understand hate. Or fear. Or revulsion. Or a desire to stay ceremonially pure. I just don't understand how Dr. Roi can turn that into a prayerful Christian action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n“The first thing Dr. Karam said was ‘I’ll be your doctor, I’ll be seeing you today because Dr. Roi decided this morning that she prayed on it and she won’t be able to care for Bay,” Jami said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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So there's the whole "We don't serve their kind here" kind of discrimination. And there's the "I feel that to bake you a wedding cake would make me complicit in your sin" kind of discrimination. But for a doctor to refuse treatment? 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Originally shared by +Danielle Buckley: Bringing the new Google+ to more peopleLast November, (http:\/\/goo.gl\/Yn6mjA) we introduced a preview on web\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/onboarding-animate.gifimgmax%3D660.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/onboarding-animate.gifimgmax%3D660.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/onboarding-animate.gifimgmax%3D660.gif?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":128879,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/18\/looking-at-the-revamped-google.html","url_meta":{"origin":49627,"position":4},"title":"Looking at the revamped Google+","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Nov-15 12:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"Web version, at least. 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