The Left’s Message to Samaritan’s Purse: You Cannot Be Christian
By: Dr. Michael Brown
The hateful bigotry of some in New York knows no bounds and seems to have no rational limits. Attacking a group that brings a hospital and its staffing to the city in the midst of a pandemic thought to overwhelm the system is beyond low and pathetic. The people attacking Samaritan’s Purse are human debris lower than pond scum. Faith based Christian charities that uphold all biblical values are doing an awesome job helping people all over the country and the world and deserve to be applauded for their efforts.
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Surge Summary: The Christian humanitarian organization Samaritans Purse is on site in New York City, trying to serve people suffering with coronavirus. Protesters – and perhaps the mayor of the city – object because the group holds to biblical values on sexuality and marriage.
It would be one thing if Samaritan’s Purse refused to treat a gay man. Or mocked a trans-identified individual. Or discriminated against a lesbian needing medical care. But none of that has ever happened. Instead, this massive, Christian humanitarian organization which serves each person alike is getting blasted by the left for one reason only. Samaritan’s Purse is a Christian organization which employs Christian workers and which believes in the historic teachings of the Bible.
That alone is their crime. That alone is their fault. And for that unthinkable transgression, for that monstrous evil, for the crime of being Christian, they are getting protested by the left.
It was bad enough that Franklin Graham’s evangelistic ministry in the UK was opposed because of his pro-Bible comments regarding sexuality and marriage. These days, that is the price for taking a stand for biblical truth and for opposing radical LGBTQ revisionism.
But it’s far worse when Graham’s humanitarian arm, Samaritan’s Purse, which selflessly serves the sick and hurting worldwide, is opposed because their statement of faith is Christian. What on earth has happened to our society?
As John Hirschauer noted in the National Review , “the volunteers for Samaritan’s Purse put themselves in harm’s way, acting as backstops for a municipal hospital system at risk of being overrun with coronavirus patients. The group’s Evangelical Christian volunteers expose themselves to infection and disease at no charge to patients, treating the sick without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, or any of the other identity groups under putative ‘siege’ in the United States.”
Yet last Tuesday, April 15, NBC News reported that, “a group of LGBTQ activists stood several yards away from the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital on the East Meadow lawn and blasted city and state officials and Mount Sinai Hospital for partnering with the evangelical humanitarian relief organization treating overflow patients suffering from the coronavirus.”
As expressed by Jay W. Walker, an activist with the Reclaim Pride Coalition, “How was this group ever considered to bring their hatred and their vitriol into our city at a time of crisis when our people are fighting a pandemic?”
It is true, as NBC News noted, that, “The hospital is staffed with Christian doctors and nurses experienced in treating infectious diseases.”
And these Christians donate their services to help strangers, putting their own lives at risk in a living demonstration of “love your neighbor as yourself.”
“But,” the report continues, “Samaritan Purse’s policies require most contractors and some full-time volunteers to sign a statement of faith that includes a declaration that ‘we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.’”
Oh, the horror! Oh, the hatred! How dare this Christian organization, led by the son of Rev. Billy Graham, uphold biblical values. How dare they affirm marriage as it has been affirmed by Church and Synagogue for two millennia. How dare they refuse to bow the knee at the altar of political correctness. Oh, the shame!
Writing in the New York Post on April 3, Bob McManus pointed out that Samaritan’s Purse makes it mission and message loud and clear: “‘Why did you come?’” asks its website. “The answer is always the same: ‘We have come to help you in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.’”
And yet that is where the problem lies: They are Christians coming to serve in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They have crossed a dangerous line – at least, in the eyes of men like Mayor de Blasio.
As McManus wrote (in classic, New York Post style), “Gotham’s chief executive this week might have accepted with some grace an offer of assistance from a crisis-tested, and devoutly Christian, emergency-relief organization — but he gave it the fisheye instead.
“It seems that in Blasville, evangelical Christians armed with tons of the sophisticated medical equipment so sorely lacking in the city right now, plus the expertise to use it, are presumptively suspect. And are perhaps to be expelled.
“Thus it was with Samaritan’s Purse, the unapologetically fundamentalist rolling rescue squad perhaps best known for the Ebola clinics it established in West and Central Africa over the past decade.”
Somehow, though, Mayor de Blasio was surprised to hear that Franklin Graham’s organization was actually – oh no! – Christian. And so he commented, “I said immediately to my team that we had to find out exactly what was happening. Was there going to be an approach that was truly consistent with the values [of] New York City?”
Ah yes, the values of New York City, the city that aborts more African American babies than it sees born every year. By far .
And the city that says: If you hold to Christian beliefs and values, you cannot serve our citizens. Not at your own expense. Not at the risk of your own lives. Not if you do it as Christians.
Better to let the COVID-19 victims pass away in their misery. We will not have true Christianity in our midst.
That is how far we have fallen, and we dare not ignore the handwriting on the wall. After all, if a Christian humanitarian organization can be protested during a pandemic for affirming biblical values, what will happen to churches and ministries during times of health and prosperity?
Fifteen years ago, I was mocked for saying that those who came out of the closet wanted to us put – Bible believing Christians – in the closet.
That now seems like a lifetime ago. For those who are still slumbering, it is well past time to wake up.
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Do they not know that public and private hospitals are filled with Christian Doctors and Nurses?
Obviously, as 75% of Americans identify as christian.
From what I read activists were protesting the fact that this organization required volunteers to sign an anti-LGBTQ 'Statement of Faith'.
OMG the horror!
The old flip flop eroo
So Franklin Graham is anti LGBTQ and you are surprised that other people object to that?
they may be first class xtians, but they will bend a knee to the Constitution or forever be considered 2nd class Americans as far as I'm concerned. sorry, can't it both ways BSers. the US Constitution rules over all Americans, their silly cult only rules over the people that let it. tough shit, welcome to America.
I'll leave you to twist in the wind.
If you had read the article, you would know that the LGBTQ folks where protesting because the Christians where allowed to treat patients.
I guess the LGBTQ has a problem with people getting medical treatment and would prefer to decide who lives or die.
they have to in this country, or else the thing they covet more than providing charitable work flies right out the window, their tax exempt status.
Then what is this?
Are you going to argue semantics and say that the statement isn't anti LGBTQ?
jeez they even specify genetics now, go figure...
because of the group's and everyone in the group who signed a discriminatory document in order to participate.
Frankly I would accept help from the Red Crescent if I had COVID,
but I am sure they would be protested too.
Got a link?
So show the class where they were required in this instance to sign anything. I am sure we can all wait.
Christian charity takes heat for anti-gay work requirements at COVID-19 field hospital
From your article....................
And your original was referred to "most" and "some", And if you analyze your article said two rejected. WOW SMH
And it doesn't have to does it?
That's the very opposite of what our gay brothers and sisters in Christ believe.
But as I said above if the Iranian Red Crescent or the CCP itself set up shop in the same parking lot they
would attract the same amount of ire & protests.
Just for different reasons from more or less the same people.
Yet, you are so okay with Trump firing career government officials on a whim, because he and his conservative policies can't get them to capitulate. No buts. Private-public its all the same. Some of you fundamentalists just want everyone to give over to you, while giving nothing of yourselves to others! Except what you wish, of course. Well, even if it means sick and dying, maybe - just maybe nobody wants life from a perceived enemy!
@2.1.3
Here is what you do not know about me. I used to give to Samaritan's Purse for several years. Until 2012. When Franklin Graham showed a 'shade' that I did not expect by doing outrageous interviews questioning Barack Obama's confession of the Christian faith. Then, I promptly stopped contributing to the fundamentalist church's mindset and the charitable contribution call-backs began. Took a great amount of personal effort to get off the mailing list too.
I respected Franklin Graham, until he demonstrated he can not extend to a fellow believer the decency of a confession, simply because he dislikes his church affiliation. One thing for you to know and understand. None of our denominations were around in the early church, and that includes the fundamentalist doctrines and teachings (Hint: No literal interpretation (alone) of the books existed in the first-century churches.)
Franklin Graham an enemy of mine? Only if he wants to stand apart and heave pebbles, rocks, and boulders at good people just for being different from his upbringings.
There is absolutely nothing to reply to in your answer. I take nothing back.
You're mistaken. But I won't dither.
Texan1211, easy enough. Just don't dither. Be about it. Share whatever you will to clarify or accept what is gleaned. I do not have time to 'go fish' on this!
I glean you are a Trump supporter and a fundamentalist Christian or close 'second.' How's that? If you want to make an impression Be about it. Either way an impression is traced. Got something else for me now?
"Carry on. . . . "
Take the last word? Well, I don't mind. Hell no! I don't support this unapologetic troll sitting atop this nation. Donald Trump is a chump. A miserable old dope who has no empathy or good word for the people he dwelled with for his entire lifetime—until he realized that being president was not going to win him props from New York. What's interesting is how Trump who 'went' conservative to win-still thought that liberal New York should bow down and take his BS 'uncut' because he is president. New York had nothing for him and his troupe of yes-men. Indeed, New York is doing its best to get back its "greatness" after Trump sells-off and 'sails off.' Bon Vonage to a real "knock-off'!
Be are sick, dying, and dead and the Trump surrogate "noise machine" is full-on. Clearly Trump does not give a damn about New Yorkers when his dopy reputation is ragged and bandied about due to his shortcomings. Somebody ought to be ashamed—enough to stay quiet. But no, the republican machine is ridiculously noisy, savage, and unapologetic.
So y'all can miss me with the "might makes right" BS. My take on it: If I need somebody to blow smoke up and in—it won't be Trump, his surrogates, or his followers.
It wasn't a Christian issue was it? They were protesting a public partnership with an obviously biased religious group.
A long as they did not interfere, who cares how they wasted their time?
So this means that the gay folks will not accept medical care from drs in public and private practice who have the same view on marriage? Are they going to require hospitals to vet their doctors religious view before hiring? Do they realize how idiotic this protest is?
Said no one.
They are/were a loose group of protesters who can't force any requirements at/in the hospitals.
Does that matter? Did the first women's liberation protesters in 1967 worry about who thought they were
( or appeared to be ) foolish,
like the Archie Bunkers of the world?
No, not at all. The protests are separate and distinct issues of policy not aid, in my opinion.
The article clearly states that the protesters said SP was not welcomed in their city to give aid.
Point it out, please.
Muslims too.
I don’t agree with their stance on LGBTQ, but I am glad for the charitable work they do.
The charitable work they do is and should be appreciated.
However, I don't have a problem with people prompting them at every opportunity to be kinder to - and inclusive of - the LGBTQ community.
They came to help people, are qualified and are doing it for free, I don't see the problem
An old saying applies "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"
I doubt they have a problem with the work they were doing, if considered in isolation. The "protestors" are trying to communicate a message. This is one way of doing it.
Where I think they go astray is in suggesting that no one should ever partner with them to help people in an emergency. Talk about cutting off the nose to spite the face!
Instead, I think it would be much cooler if their protest was along the lines of "Thanks for your help. Consider changing the way you respond to LGBTQ people." Not with those exact words perhaps, but with that basic sentiment.
On the other hand, acting like the Samaritan's Purse people were in some kind of danger is kind of silly.
Anything run by Graham's son should be avoided at all costs.
How many lives?
freedom of choice et al..
Just like the protesters demanding the country open up, despite the obvious risks?
Dear Mayor De Blasio:
My inquiring mind wants to know:
I am fine with them helping as long as they aren't pushing their religion down peoples throats. I wonder how many people Graham has welcomed into his church that are homeless and/or have covid-19?
None. Zero. White, Olestein, Copeland...all the same thing..."give us money, but if you need help, go fuck yourself"..
Reference, please. Protestthelockdowns, please provide a reference.