Thursday, January 22, 2009

Dumb

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/21faith.html?_r=3&th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1232569102-61pZNDsvN5eVxIgVpaPeaA

"In the last year, two other sets of parents, both in Oregon, were criminally charged because they had not sought medical care for their children on the ground that to do so would have violated their belief in faith healing. One couple were charged with manslaughter in the death of their 15-month-old daughter, who died of pneumonia last March. The other couple were charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of their 16-year-old son, who died from complications of a urinary tract infection that was severely painful and easily treatable."

Idiots.
If only there were some way to make stupidity a crime, it would go a long way toward getting rid of religion. And to think Oregon has helmet laws, and no-smoking laws, and yet "god told me to let my child die" still gets a pass...

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