The following article highlights the fact that the all-out onslaught against Christians has now intensified. Christian health-care workers (of which I am one) are now going to be forced to make a decision that may result in losing their jobs and, potentially, their licenses to practice.
http://www.worldmag .com/articles/ article.cfm? eid=6F2D8257- 9552-5ECF- 1179CB34060AE1EA.
Up to this point nurses, in any health care setting, had the right to refuse an assignment without recrimination if it involved the murder of the baby in the womb (antiseptically known as “abortion”) if it violated their religious beliefs or personal morals. Employers were barred by law from terminating the employment of any health care worker for taking this stand. I, personally, have been placed in this situation and refused to participate in the procedure, as have others. Doctors, as well, were also covered and were not required to perform abortion procedures as part of their resident training if they, too, found it morally and spiritually reprehensible.
With the passage of this new law, however, all that is out the window. The legal protection is now gone. Nurses and doctors now face the dark and looming prospect of actually losing their licenses to practice medicine and provide health care if they, on moral, personal or spiritual grounds, refuse to participate in the murder of the baby in the womb. With professional licensing boards being increasingly controlled by liberal, left-wing and intolerant individuals, the pressure will increase to “purge” the health care ranks of those who believe the baby in the womb has a right to live. This is just one example of the far left’s slobbering, vehement desire to rid the country of anyone who disagrees with their amoral and antinomian philosophy. And this desire is relentless, as is witnessed in the recent ruling just handed down from the Iowa “Supreme” Court striking down that state’s law (read: the will of the people) prohibiting the marriage of homogenital couples.
This article should remove all doubt in people’s minds about the “change” the majority of the American people voted for in the last presidential election cycle. That “change” clearly is to remove all vestiges of the Christian principles that our country was founded on. That “change” has now begun in the arena of health care. As an employee of the Federal Government (VA) I am becoming increasingly concerned as to what type of new “standards of care” or “acts of compliance” or “outcome based practice” may potentially be imposed on Registered Nurses (and all other health care providers) who profess the name of Christ as Savior.
My prayer is that God’s Grace will continue to surround and protect those who have named the Name of Christ in the inevitable coming trying times, and particularly those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping people in need of medical care (including the unborn). It is abundantly clear that if we (Western culture) continue down this dark and dangerous path that we now find ourselves on, we Christians will find ourselves becoming more and more marginalized. This new intolerant law now facing health care workers will indeed eventually spread to Christians in all professions and walks of life. It will become a litmus test for employment everywhere. We must be prepared for that eventuality.
Our fight, then, is not with each other across denominational or theological boundaries. Our fight, dear friends, is with the gathering dark storm of evil on the horizon that would eliminate the Christian worldview and influence on our society. It has been the relentless goal of the evil one since the Garden of Eden to remove God and any sense of moral purity and rightness from the earth. We must remember who our real enemy is.
Ultimately, however, our hope is in Jesus Christ the final avenger, whose Second Coming (parousia) will right all the wrongs and injustices perpetrated on His people. It is to this hope that we must cling.
The Lord be with you…..
Wandering Friar
