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image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin-bottom: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3088">State Rep. John Gannon (D-Boise) wants to narrow the loophole to permit prosecution of parents who rely on faith-healing “whenever a child’s medical condition may cause death or permanent disability.”</div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin-bottom: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3089">But Perry insists Followers of Christ have a First Amendment right to deny medical care to their children on religious grounds, arguing that they are perhaps more comfortable confronting death, <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/22/idahos-faith-healing-debate-pits-child-welfare-against-parental-rights.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(56, 56, 56); border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; -webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3132">reported Al Jazeera America</a>.</div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin-bottom: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3090">“Children do die,” Perry said. “I’m not trying to sound callous, but (reformers) want to act as if death is an anomaly. But it’s not — it’s a way of life.”</div><div style="border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin-bottom: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3090"><font color="#505050" face="PT Sans" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3122" class="" style=""><span style="font-size: 18px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3121" class=""><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/idaho-republican-backs-faith-healer-parents-if-i-want-to-let-my-child-be-with-god-why-is-that-wrong/#.VO6_ZWBPIwM.facebook" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3118">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/idaho-republican-backs-faith-healer-parents-if-i-want-to-let-my-child-be-with-god-why-is-that-wrong/#.VO6_ZWBPIwM.facebook</a></span></font><br></div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin-bottom: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3091">The lawmaker said most of the calls for reform she’s received have come from out of state.</div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin-bottom: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“As you move out West, we tend to be much more independent people, and Idaho is a lot like that,” Perry said, adding that her district was particularly anti-government.</div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; margin-bottom: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">“(Followers of Christ) do not look to the government to help them at all,” she continued. “They’re very self-sufficient and know how to take care of themselves. In Canyon County, people hunt to feed their families, they fish, (and) they grow their own food.”</div><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: inherit; fo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