New York City has been hit hard by
the coronavirus, with scores of people dying every day. The Gotham City’s
healthcare system has been stretched nearly to the breaking point. Fortunately,
blessedly, Samaritan’s Purse, the global Christian charity, recently set up a
large emergency field hospital in Central Park to help America’s largest city deal
with the crisis.
How
did the Big Apple’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, react to this act of succor and
benevolence? Did he fall to his knees and give thanks for the manna from
heaven? Not precisely. In fact, he told the New York Post he found the idea of
the field hospital “very troubling.” Apparently, Hizzoner is suspicious of the
charity because its president and CEO, Franklin Graham, shares the Bible’s
teachings on sexuality, leading him to believe that Samaritan’s Purse might
somehow “discriminate” against members of the LGBT community. De Blasio told
the Post: "I said immediately to my team
that we had to find out exactly what was happening. Was there going to be an
approach that was truly consistent with the values and the laws in New York
City, that everyone would be served and served equally?" Good call. I’m sure the charity’s first question to those
in dire need of medical assistance would be, “Are you now or have you ever been
a member of the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender communities?”
Unbelievable.
Though de Blasio received
assurances from the organization that there would be no discrimination of any
kind, he still felt compelled to state that he had partnered with the local
health system to monitor the shady Christian’s field hospital. De Blasio
boasted: "I spoke earlier today with the CEO of the Mount Sinai [health]
system, Dr. Ken Davis, who was adamant that they will only continue their
relationship with the organization if those rules are followed, that they have
a written agreement, that there’s going to be no discrimination whatsoever. We’re
going to send people over from the Mayor’s Office to monitor [the hospital]. So I’m very concerned to make
sure this is done right.” Or else its curtains, I say! Curtains for you
dastardly devils!
Hizzoner (and I use the term loosely) then
softened his tone a bit and added, “But if it is done right, of course, we need
all the help we can get."
What kind of an epic jackass do
you have to be to make these remarks to those who are providing you vitally
needed, priceless assistance in times of an almost existential humanitarian
crisis? This is asshattery of an almost Biblical scale, even if it comes from a
Democrat who disdains the Bible.
Democrats now openly try to
score political points from every single catastrophe, every disaster, every tragedy.
They don’t give a rat’s ass about any human being per se, only the ones they
think might vote for them. It is incredible—or should be—that, in the midst of
a pandemic, de Blasio essentially says, “Well, as long as this group doesn’t
abide by any Biblical tenets, I will allow them to help us out and save
people’s lives.”
This is akin to allied leaders
saying of Red Cross volunteers on World War II battlefields, “Our primary
concern is that they don’t discriminate against pansexual transvestites, of
course. That said, if they give us assurances in that regard, they are welcome
to help.”
Or Jews being liberated from
Nazi concentration camps averring, “I don’t want to be freed if there are any
anti-Semites in this unit!”
Or British and French leaders
during the Crimean War remarking, “As long as Florence Nightingale doesn’t
discriminate in any way against atheists and agnostics, she’s free to keep
aiding the wounded.”
What the hell has happened to us?
Wait, I think I see the problem: we aren’t
abiding by many Biblical tenets.
No comments:
Post a Comment