Bin Laden, Manson, and This Guy

"Their pastor, Nelson Clark, has said the Schaibles lost their sons because of a “spiritual lack” in their lives and insisted they would not seek medical care even if another child appeared near death."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/faith-healing-parents-get-prison-sons-death-n33921


"Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner told Herbert and Catherine Schaible on Wednesday that it wasn't 8-month-old Brandon's time to die.
He said: "You've killed two of your children... not God, not your church, not religious devotion -- you.""

Wrong, Judge Lerner. We have precedence. These people had to get the idea from somewhere. And what's more dangerous to society? These two idiots, or the people that put this idiotic idea in their heads? I'm pretty sure this preacher still holds to his belief, and still preaches it. And some people are going to listen. Why were we able to target Bin Laden who only planned his attacks for others to carry out, and able to convict Charles Manson who just pulled the strings on easily manipulated people?

Yes, these "parents" deserve their sentences. But the preacher walks free? He should have an even more severe sentence. Anything short of that is just encouraging this to happen more often. And from other pulpits, not just Pastor Nelson Clark's.

This is a "no-brainer".
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/27542/faith-healing-death-sentenced

Idaho Republicans go 180 degrees the other way.

"The legislation killed by Idaho Republicans today would have held faith healing parents legally accountable when children suffer and die because parents choose prayer over modern medicine. However, Idaho Republicans are more concerned about “religious liberty” than protecting children. Raw Story reports Republicans like Rep. Christy Perry fought the bill on the grounds that forcing faith healing parents to take their sick and injured children to the doctor would infringe upon their religious liberty:
“This is about religious beliefs, the belief God is in charge of whether they live, and God is in charge of whether they die,” Perry said earlier this year. “This is about where they go for eternity.”"

 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2014/02/idaho-gop-protects-faith-healing-parents-sanctions-child-abuse/

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