FRanklin GRaham Is Behind Field Hospital In Central Park And...

[Mary Ann]

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213208508

Me. (27,889 posts)


FRanklin GRaham Is Behind Field Hospital In Central Park And...

 
“On Tuesday morning, a makeshift tent hospital in Central Park will begin treating overflow patients from Mount Sinai, as the spread of COVID-19 begins to overwhelm local hospitals. Announcing the 68-bed respiratory unit this weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio praised the relief organization, Samaritan's Purse, responsible for funding and erecting the facility.

The mayor did not mention that the group is led by Franklin Graham, a notorious anti-LGBTQ and Islamophobic preacher with a track record of using humanitarian missions to proselytize an evangelical agenda.

Graham, the son of prominent minister Billy Graham, has specifically sought to recruit Christian medical staff to the Central Park facility. According to the group's website, all volunteers, including health care workers, should read and adhere to a statement of faith, in which marriage is defined as "exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female" and the unrighteous are sentenced to "everlasting punishment in hell.

Asked whether the Mayor's Office considers this problematic, a City Hall spokesperson said the field hospital will operate as a Mount Sinai facility, and must adhere to the hospital's policy against discrimination. The spokesperson did not say whether the city was concerned that volunteers on the project are expected to agree with the group's anti-gay faith statement."

https://gothamist.com/news/samaritans-purse-franklin-graham-anti-gay-evangelical-central-park

PJMcK (12,126 posts)

13. Graham is in for a surprise

New Yorkers won't like his shit. Most New Yorkers won't put up with his discrimination and religious nonsense.

New Yorkers will metaphorically kick his ass to the curb.

I've lived in and around New York most of my life. I know my city.

Besides, the Mt. Sinai hospital system is huge and diverse. I live near the hospital (when there isn't a viral crisis) and a great many of the medical professionals live in the neighborhood renting apartments from the hospital's corporation. These folks are from all around the world and represent nearly every group you could imagine. The spectrum of diversity won't allow Graham's bullshit to flourish. Not in New York.

FBaggins (19,883 posts)

14. Let's see if I've got this straight

The city is (justifiably) worried that they're about to run out of beds and ventilators - causing thousands to die who would otherwise survive... and somebody shows up with a fully-equipped 68-bed hospital and a full staff at no charge... BUT all of those workers are from a religion that most New Yorkers disagree with.

And you think that nobody will "put up with their nonsense"? Those beds are just going to sit empty?

I'm not a betting man, but I'm having trouble thinking of odds high enough that I wouldn't want to take that bet.

Frodo has shown up in a few of these threads about Samaritan's Purse, always defending them. Wonder how he avoids the ban?

[jukin]

Boy the DUchebags are really letting their freak hate fly.

My guess is any and every New Yorker is going to take Graham up on his medical hospital  services if they are in need.

We all know the truism, "Leftists are always there when they need you or something."

[SVPete]

I DU-Folk bothered to learn a very little about Samaritan's Purse, https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/about-us/ , they would realize that SP goes wherever to whomever, letting the whomevers ask or not ask, "Why?" Unless activists interfere, successfully, SP's facility will be as busy as any other in NYC.

[DLR Pyro]

Me. (27,889 posts)


FRanklin GRaham Is Behind Field Hospital In Central Park And...

...and you can chose to go there if you need assistance or you can die in the streets.  It makes no difference to me.

[franksolich]

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For years I've noticed that the primitive attitude towards giving to those in need closely parallels that of the socialists the first few years after the Russian revolution in 1917.

The churches were forbidden from dispensing charity to the poor, one of their main functions.

The idea being that if one needed something, the government and no other entity should provide it.

Sort of like opponents of the Second Amendment who insist we should rely solely upon the police for protection.

[jukin]

...and you can chose to go there if you need assistance or you can die in the streets.  It makes no difference to me.

I hope they don't go and die. They are horrible people that look out only for themselves and would love to see me and mine die. 

I am not turning my cheek never have never will.

[SVPete]

The mayor did not mention that the group is led by Franklin Graham ...

Ummmmm ... isn't this fairly commonly known?

[Aristotelian]

It takes a particular type of anti-religious zealot to hate religious folk for trying to help others.

[landofconfusion80]

I hope they don't go and die. They are horrible people that look out only for themselves and would love to see me and mine die. 

I am not turning my cheek never have never will.

Well, unless they die in an entertaining or colorful fashion. Seeing one chased around the bronze bull and eaten by a cougar with a clown wig glued to its head would be a wonderful thing

[J P Sousa]

The dummies always take free stuff. If they need it they will take it. 

[Old n Grumpy]

...and you can chose to go there if you need assistance or you can die in the streets.  It makes no difference to me.

I like dying in the streets!!

The treatment can be used on those who will apriciate it.

As for all the new yorkers who don't like it, **** them. and stay away from Florida.

[SVPete]

From what I've read, de Blah-Blah is among the Prog bigots and will be sending people in to monitor for some sort of discrimination. If possible, SP should have tight entry-exit screening to exclude covert spies, and if any NYC authorities assert authority, they should be strictly escorted and observed, so as to make lying harder and prevent interference (and the consequence of the first interference should be prompt removal). Because de Blah-Blah's bigot-operatives cannot be trusted to be truthful.