Fear Tactics in Health Reform The Real News Network go to original September 17, 2009
Bishop Gene Robinson Pt.2: The struggle for reform should be fierce but never return "evil with evil"
Paul Jay speaks to Bishop Gene Robinson at the Tides Foundation's Momentum conference in San Francisco. They talk about the demonization of the two sides of the health reform debate. Robinson says that the "loving your enemy has nothing whatsoever to do with liking your enemy. For me, as a Christian, I am never given the license of treating my enemy as anything less than a child of God. I don't resort to the kinds of tactics that I would describe as immoral to fight an immoral attack on me. I think each side demonizes the other. I think the antidote to that is to believe, as I do, that that opposition comes out of fear, it actually doesn't come out of hatred. I think that what we've failed to do is to ask the question of "what are they afraid of?" and try to speak to that, not to the presenting issue." Full presentation at the Momentum conference can be found HERE. Bio: Gene Robinson is the ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He is considered the first internationally recognized and ordained a bishop in a major Christian denomination to be openly queer and non-celibate. In 2009 he gave the opening prayer at Barack Obama's inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial, and was later honored by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) with the Stephen F. Kolzak Media Award.
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