A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine. Critics say it violates the separation of church and state. Full Story »
Posted by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - via Memeorandum
The LA Times has cooked the debate for the sake of the story. All too common in political news, perspectives get the limelight and the search for truth and fact is lazily abandoned. For this story, the reporters could have culled from the lists of neglect cases and commendably pointless studies over the years that have repeatedly shown no connection between "faith" treatments and recovery. Instead, the first person they quote is a Christian Science Church official purporting that prayer is, in fact, health care. Wasteful.
