Christian Life Resources (CLR) just created its new website, and it's even worse than before. We used to get articles from LifeNews. Well, okay, articles isn't really the right word. They are biased right-wing Republican opinion pieces masking as pro-life news articles.
Well, now in addition to these propaganda pieces we also get to have links to Robert Fleischmann's personal blog (he's the executive director of Christian Life Resources). Why he thinks that his personal opinions belong on the CLR website is beyond me. One of the postings (http://www.robertfleischmann.com/?p=47) is basically his personal opinion as to why he opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act. He kind of says he's not opposed to ways to assure everyone has access to health care, but he doesn't like this law. But I closely followed the debate and where CLR positioned itself in the debate. They clearly never had any interest in encouraging common ground. It's interesting that I never once saw a discussion of the possibility that access to healthcare might actually reduce the demand for, and number of, abortions. The fact that they avoided this kind of discussion calls into question CLR's true motives in opposing the law. They opposed the law from the beginning and published articles on their website to that effect. Some articles they published opposed any sort of national health care. If he is serious about wanting more universal healthcare, I encourage Pastor Fleischmann himself, or one of his Republican bedfellows, to lay their plan out there for all to see, rather than sniping at the only serious proposal that someone actually had the courage to enact. Perhaps if he had encouraged his Republican friends to stay at the table, he might have gotten a bill more to his liking. You kinda had your chance, so stop your whining....
The most troubling part to me is that the positions taken in this regard are not Biblical. In fact, they are often specifically un-Biblical. CLR is a WELS-affiliated organization. I challenge the leadership of WELS, as well as its parish pastors, to call out Pastor Fleischmann on his false teachings.
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