<div dir="ltr" style=""><div>This guy is a way off base.</div><div>Roger<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid;">-----Original Message-----<br />Subject: [Vision2020] Id Republican: Kids can be with God<br />From: "Ron Force" <rforce2003@yahoo.com><br />To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><br />Date: 02/26/15 16:07:06<br /><br /><title></title>
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<div style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">An Idaho Republican said a proposed ban on faith-healing could violate the religious rights of her constituents - many of whom eschew medical care for themselves and their families.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3129" style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">"They have a clear understanding of what the role of government should be - (and it) isn't how to tell me how to live my life," said state Rep. Christy Perry (R-Nampa).</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3087" style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Legislation limiting a faith exemption for medical care in the state's child neglect law was<a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3086" style="border: 0px currentColor; transition:color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border-image: none; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms;" href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/idaho-republican-opposes-law-aimed-at-stopping-faith-healing-child-deaths/" target="_blank">proposed after a string of preventable child deaths</a> in Marsing among members of the Followers of Christ Church.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3088" style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">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 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3089" style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">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 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3132" style="border: 0px currentColor; transition:color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms; border-image: none; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-transition: color 300ms, background-color 300ms, opacity 300ms;" href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/22/idahos-faith-healing-debate-pits-child-welfare-against-parental-rights.html" target="_blank">reported Al Jazeera America</a>.</div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3090" style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">"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>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1424962771282_3091" style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">The lawmaker said most of the calls for reform she's received have come from out of state.</div>
<div style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">"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="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">"(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="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Perry said faith healers are caring parents who simply trust in God's will.</div>
<div style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">"They are comforted by the fact that they know their child is in heaven," Perry said. "If I want to let my child be with God, why is that wrong?"</div>
<div style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">The lawmaker questioned the motives of faith-healing reformers.</div>
<div style="font: inherit; border: 0px currentColor; border-image: none; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); margin-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">"Is it really because these children are dying more so than other children, or is this really about an attack on a religion you don't agree with?" Perry said.</div>
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