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Lawsuit not the Christian way; Vondell McCoy; Beaver County Times; March 4, 2012.
Mr. McCoy wrote two previous letters I critiqued (“Budget is racist” and “Obama’s wishful thinking”) and one I did not (“Leave ‘don’t ask’ up to the troops”).
You may find interesting Mr. McCoy’s post on the Black Talk Radio Network website.
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“I feel like the whole contraception issue is small in comparison to the issue of how a (so-called) Christian organization is going about this. What are they saying about Christianity with this action?”
[RWC] It’s not about contraception. This manufactured mess is about government forcing individuals and religious organizations to engage in activities that violate their religious beliefs. Please don’t be a dope and ask something like “Oh yeah; what if a religion required cannibalism?” It’s also a political ploy to change the subject from things like the economy.
Mr. McCoy’s take on Christianity in this letter is nothing like anything I learned in my eight years at St. Titus grade school and four years of high school CCD classes.
“This lawsuit is very self-serving, individualistic and one-sided. Not only are they making decisions for women, they are taking Christianity in a direction I do not think it was intended to go.”
[RWC] The lawsuit, Geneva College v. Sebelius, has nothing to do with “making decisions for women.”
“I’m not going to quote scripture or Biblical law here, but this action violates pretty much all of what Christianity stands on. This isn’t an issue for the church to bring to court for a decision.”
[RWC] Standing up and defending your beliefs “violates pretty much all of what Christianity stands on?” I must have been out the day the Sisters taught that lesson.
“I see this lawsuit as an act of terrorism. They have hostages (whomever they listed as defendants), and a list of demands. This isn’t the Christian way, and has never been the Christian way.”
[RWC] Mr. McCoy’s view is interesting. Geneva was minding its own business when the feds came along and attempted to force the school to violate its religious beliefs, but Mr. McCoy sees Geneva as the aggressor/oppressor/“terrorist” and the feds as the victims/oppressed/“hostages.”
According to the lawsuit, the defendants are “KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, in her official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services; HILDA SOLIS, in her official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Labor; TIMOTHY GEITHNER, in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; and UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY.”
“Laws change. Religious morals and beliefs and practices should remain the same. Turn the other cheek. Pay the premiums and pray. God will work it out. That is Christianity.”
[RWC] What good are “[r]eligious morals and beliefs and practices” if a person or organization constantly yields when government enacts laws requiring people to violate those “[r]eligious morals and beliefs and practices?” What must Mr. McCoy think of people who refused to knuckle under and died defending their faith?
“God will work it out?” Though it’s not “scripture or Biblical law,” as a child I remember being taught “God helps those who help themselves.”
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