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Fri Aug 23, 2013, 09:16 PM Aug 2013

Texas megachurch flip-flops on vaccine/autism woo after almost a dozen members get sick.

I'm not surprised...


A Texas megachurch whose leaders have linked vaccines to autism is now asking its members to get immunizations or stay quarantined after an outbreak of measles was traced to the congregation.

Instead of her normal sermon on Sunday, Eagle Mountain International Church Pastor Terri Copeland Pearsons was forced to spend the majority of her time explaining how the congregation should react to the news that all of the 11 measles cases in Tarrant County had been linked to members or visitors of the church.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/vaccine-fearing-texas-megachurch-urges-flock

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Texas megachurch flip-flops on vaccine/autism woo after almost a dozen members get sick. (Original Post) Archae Aug 2013 OP
The state Health Department probably had something to do with that. longship Aug 2013 #1
These are the very hypocrites Jesus warned us about. Initech Aug 2013 #2
in other news the Creation Museum got struck by lightning this week elehhhhna Aug 2013 #3

longship

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1. The state Health Department probably had something to do with that.
Fri Aug 23, 2013, 09:31 PM
Aug 2013

They have extraordinary powers with respect to a contagious disease break out. Measles is almost unknown in the USA for years. Twelve cases in a county all traceable to one church?

Either the church complies or the health department shuts them down.

They did this because a state official told them that they had no choice in the matter. (Or at minimum, a Hobson's choice.)

The government's power in stopping epidemics is fairly omnipotent. Apparently, not so much Copeland's healing God.

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