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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas 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
longship
(40,416 posts)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.
Initech
(100,063 posts)elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)god...works...mysterious etc.