Posted on 01/30/2015 4:50:18 AM PST by dontreadthis
Matthew 25 includes a call for more entitlement spending and provides biblical justification for Obamacare, or so says Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Promoting Obamacare in South Dakota, Montana and several national interviews last week, Kasich touted the Bible chapter’s depiction of judgment based on individual charity as a sweeping endorsement of government programs for the poor.
Kasich, a Republican, campaigned against Obamacare in 2010, saying the law’s Medicaid expansion would “stick states with large and unsustainable costs.” He unilaterally implemented the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in 2013.
The Obamacare expansion puts able-bodied, working-age adults with no dependent children on Medicaid at a cost of billions per year in new federal spending. By Kasich’s description, Matthew 25 amounts to a divine endorsement of the policy.
“Now, if you ever read Matthew 25, I think, ‘I wanna feed the hungry and clothe the naked,'” Kasich said when asked about Obamacare at a Jan. 20 event in Pierre, South Dakota.
“Now, I don’t know whether you ever read Matthew 25, but I commend it to you, the end of it, about do you feed the homeless and do you clothe the poor,” Kasich told Montana legislators when asked about Obamacare at a Helena press conference the next day.
Kasich cited Matthew 25 when defending his Obamacare expansion during a Fox News interview aired Jan. 22, during a Jan. 22 Hugh Hewitt interview and during an NPR interview aired Friday.
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LOL!! (Along with other FReepers ;)
With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?
You have the choice between Communists in the form of Democrats, or you can have a run to the WILD side, and choose Communists in the form of Republicans.
We are so screwed.
Phrase already coined. See tagline.
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I like it, I really, really like it.
They want to keep church and state separate...
Every time they throw a Christian twisted morality at us we should remind them of this separation and that they are not theologians either.
I just hope that none of them came “personally autographed”
Voluntarily helping is charity. Charity taken at gunpoint is theft.
Are you an Obama supporter? (since you referenced Bush in that manner). Just curious...What manner? Factual?
Medicare Part D is all Bush's doing.
Kasich is a liberal tool.
What in the hell happened to this otherwise normal guy?
Democrat money and bribes? Blackmail and intimidation?
Hey Governor, will you pay the EXTRA $700 a Month I’m paying for my Health Insurance because of Obamacare?
Send me a FReepmail and I’ll give you my name and address.
I actually thought Kasich was a Conservative at one time.
Silly me.
I'm going to have to steal that line, Judy!
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