United Church of Christ: An urgent call supporting healthcare for all, supports STRONG PUBLIC OPTION

[CocoaBeachCoco]

The General Synod of the United Church of Christ adopted a Resolution entitled An Urgent Call For Advocacy in Support of Healthcare For All, as in H.R. 676. This resolution calls for a Single-Payer plan to make health care coverage available for all God's children. We acknowledge that it will probably not be the health care proposal of choice. However, we must support a strong public plan option that provides meaningful access to all.

http://www.ucc.org/health-care-reform/

[drm604]

1. K&R

:kick:

[liberal N proud]

2. Someone must have read the bible

The healing part and caring for one another.

This is good.

[uppityperson]

3. Good. However, there are some rabid RWers @ UCC also.

Betcha this will really piss off my RW UCC relatives.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

4. Really?

I thought the UCC was as left-wing as any organized denomination out there. I'm surprised.

[blondeatlast]

11. I've been attending for years, never met anyone even slightly right of center.

:shrug:

[uppityperson]

12. They joined long ago and it changed, but they were too stubborn to

quit since that would mean my family belonged longer. Odd relatives, lots of issues there.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

22. That's not too odd...

I was once a member of a congregatin (not UCC) that was slowly dwindling -- death and membership transfers. The last survivors were the elderly, who simply didn't want to leave the only church they'd known their whole lives.

[etherealtruth]

6. Odd ....but I suppose all large groups have some diversity among their members.

[we can do it]

8. are you sure they are not just "church of christ" wackos?

they tend to be pretty RW

[uppityperson]

10. We had 2 UCC churches in town. We went to one, they went to the other to avoid us

She was in Young Republicans or some such for yrs, then got into the regular repub group and I have never quite understood why they continued with UCC since it seemed against a lot of their political beliefs. Every group has some fringe members, still is odd but there they are. Maybe too stubborn to leave when it became more liberalized?

[etherealtruth]

5. The UCC usually ....

.... is on the right side. They've never disappointed me. as an aside I've never been a UCC member, I worked for a health care system of theirs long ago and have nothing but good to say about them)

[patrice]

7. Great!!! United Church of Christ leads the way Again.

How I wish I could have said that about the Catholic Church.

[onehandle]

16. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports the proposed health care reform bill.

Including the public option. They released a statement last month.

[patrice]

17. I am glad to hear this.

[sabrina 1]

9. Good for them, they are upholding

the real values of Jesus, who they believe in. 'All God's children'! To the rightwing Christians, not all of us are 'God's Children'.

Now, where are all the other 'Christian' Churces?

[Not Me]

13. The UCC allows each of its chuches to follow it's own conscience in matters like this...

We joined one in Florida and left recently because it was nothing like the the parent organization.
The pastor (for 5 years) kept saying, "...we'll get there, but there are a lot of (old---> read: money) folks that are resistant to change."

We couldn'take it any more.

[uppityperson]

15. That's the type my relatives attend. Changing but slowly as those old folks go away

Good luck in finding a better one.

[Blue Meany]

14. At the policy-making level, which is to say those who are

active participants at regional conventions, UCC has always been pretty liberal. Back when I was involved as youth activist in the 1960's, they gave financial support to the farmworkers union in California, passed anti-war resolutions, and were one of the first churches to ordain gay ministers. In California, there was a low-key, friendly rival between the Methodists, Presbyterians and the UCC to be the most liberal--but it was usually the UCC that was in the liberal vanguard of the mainstream churches. There were conservatives in all of these churches, but at the policy-making level they were a minority and they were not the irratioal wing-nuts that are so common today.

[Ilsa]

18. Most excellent! Thanks for the good news. nt

[proud patriot]

19. 'bout time

[Maru Kitteh]

20. This thread should be bookmarded for when some A-holes go on about moderate and liberal Christians

not standing up against the haters and speaking to what is right.

[provis99]

21. sure they stood up for what is right.

But don't tell me they got this from the Bible, that Book of Horrors.

[Maru Kitteh]

25. Oooo look! I caught one!

There are a few nice words in there too.

People take what they want from the Bible, no matter what they believe, or don't believe. You have chosen to take the most violent and alien, fundies take take the obscure and judgemental. I take the part that tells me to care for my ncighbor, to do good works, and care for the least, and so forth.

[juno jones]

23. K&R! n/t

[Kat45]

24. Absolutely! I belong to the UCC church.

I love that peace and social justice are big in that church. This is a church that walks the walk.