{"id":92138,"date":"2015-05-06T00:21:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=92138"},"modified":"2015-04-22T08:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T15:40:30","slug":"tennessee-senator-denies-280000-people-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/05\/tennessee-senator-denies-280000-people-health-care.html","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Senator Denies 280,000 People Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/01\/todd-gardenhire_n_6986582.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">calls constituent \u201casshole\u201d for asking him to give up his own health care.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0Gospel takes away our right\u00a0forever, to discriminate between the deserving\u00a0and the\u00a0undeserving\u00a0poor.\u201d \u2013 Dorothy Day<\/p>\n<p>It does not however, take away our right to distinguish between the poor and lowly whom God has lifted up and the mighty he casts down in their arrogance.  Nor does it prohibit, but positively demands, that we rejoice when he fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/04\/03\/missouri-republicans-are-trying-to-ban-food-stamp-recipients-from-buying-steak-and-seafood\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Missouri Republicans are striving to deny food stamp recipients the right to steak and seafood<\/a>, because the tiniest pleasures of the poor are acts of theft from the Righteous.  We must be ever-vigilant to make sure that the poor receive the punishment, humiliation and shame they deserve for any smallest happiness.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026calls constituent \u201casshole\u201d for asking him to give up his own health care. 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