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Democrats Pervert The Bible

Grotesque misinterpretations of the Bible by individuals who ought to know better often lead to inexcusable distortions elsewhere. A preacher who divisively perverts the Biblical definition of marriage likely skewers interpretations of the Constitution as well. Such was the case in the PJ (8-19) which said, “The Constitution of the United States… declares that we the people will provide for the general welfare.” The Preamble of the Constitution actually says, “We, the people … promote (not provide) the general welfare.” He twisted the general welfare clause into a license for “Medicaid for all.” ”

James Madison said, “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. The [powers of the federal government] will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. Federalist Paper 45. (“Medicaid for all” didn’t make Madison’s list.) Furthermore, the general welfare clause, according to Madison, depended on the federal government’s strict adherence to the “few and defined” powers in the Constitution. Who understands the general welfare clause correctly: a religious leftist or Madison?

The leftist writer stated, “[W]e as a nation said that health care is a right.” Where is that written and who made it so? The writer added that the right to health care “is inalienable.” Doesn’t he know that what government gives, it can take away? Saying health care is an inalienable right from the government is just like Obama when he said, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your plan.” So much for that “inalienable right” when people, like me, had their plan taken away by Obamacare! Rights inalienable are life and liberty from the eternal unchangeable God who doesn’t endow a nation’s people with an inalienable bureaucracy of government-run health care projected to cost $32 trillion over 10 years.

“A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” Who understands inalienable rights and the proper role of government better: a religious leftist or Thomas Jefferson?

The religious leftist calls “all our elected leaders to immediately declare that Medicaid is a right…” What kind of right does he have in mind: a right to health care on demand from anyone, at anytime, anywhere for free? A person’s right to force something from you contradicts the true nature of rights. Government may indeed referee health care, but for government to make anyone provide money, time and resources for those who claim health care is their right violates freedom and justice. A right that gives anyone power to impose on others, like “abortion rights” do on the defenseless unborn, is fraudulent. The religious leftist conflates “fake rights” issued by over-sized godless government with the inalienable rights derived from our Creator.

He not only warps the nature of rights, he bypasses the appropriate process for major policy changes. To make government-imposed health care the policy for all Americans, Congress can’t just pass a law to have it. Such a monumental change requires the slower and more deliberative process, namely an amendment to the Constitution, but he, like the left, skip over that just as they disregard the original intent in the language of the Constitution. That way, they can twist, distort and make up what they want the Constitution to say, like leftist clergymen do with the Bible about marriage.

A self-identified liberal progressive who thanked the religious leftist for pushing “Medicaid for all” corrected another person for not capitalizing “constitution.” I interjected by saying, “Better not to capitalize constitution but respect its original intent than to capitalize Constitution and decapitate its original intent.” Curtly, he retorted, “Better still to ignore your nonsense … I wonder what the founders would say of Mr. Trump?” “Much better than Obama, Clinton, and Bush!” I wrote. He replied, “Thinking like that is why you are bald, Mel.”

Whatever accusation against me may be brought up by the left against Judge Kavanaugh, no one can accuse him of baldness, not even leftist Senator Corey “I am Spartacus” Booker who, by the way, is bald.

The general welfare clause affirms and encourages health care throughout society, but not in the Orwellian way the religious leftist suggested: government must impose the right to health care on everyone. Indicative of the left, his method of force, compulsion and “legal theft” contradicts the spirit and letter of the Constitution which situates the general welfare of the nation in the context of “the blessings of liberty.”

The Rev. Mel McGinnis is a Frewsburg resident.

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