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...strongly believe that a physician has a moral obligation to learn about all aspects of a patient’s identity (socioeconomic status, occupation, culture, race, ethnicity, language, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity and religion) as they may or may not relate to her/his health habits, beliefs or practices. However, an understanding and subsequent consideration of these circumstances in the context of ensuring optimal patient care is where, I believe, such an obligation ends...
...contribution to patient care less meaningful or in any way less effective? Maybe for some patients; though most will find spiritual comfort in others. And perhaps still other patients will value the advice and life perspective of their secular physician. Even though he never took a course on religion at the medical school...
...seeking a middle ground on abortion have been attracted to this notion of personal opposition but official toleration. Its roots go back to John F. Kennedy's famous speech to the Protestant ministers of Houston, in which Kennedy essentially offered voters a deal: If you won't allow my religion to affect the way you vote, I won't allow my religion to affect the way I govern. Giuliani and Romney both want that deal...
...agnostic bootlegger, Jerry Falwell found Jesus at age 18 but didn't find politics until much later--and when he did, he was no fundamentalist. His great American invention was not the marriage of religion and politics, since they hadn't lived apart in the first place. It was that he married political friends with religious enemies in pursuit of a common goal. Falwell, who died May 15, didn't care that Jimmy Carter was a Bible-believing Baptist if he still had the soul of a Democrat or that Ronald Reagan was a divorced cinemactor, as long...
...premises. Only the Orthodox clergy are entitled to give ecclesiastic guidance to the military. Some provinces have included Russian Orthodox Culture classes in school curricula with students doing church chores. When Orthodox fundamentalists vandalized an art exhibition at the Moscow Andrei Sakharov Center as "an insult to the main religion of our country," the Moscow Court found the Center managers guilty of insulting the faith, and fined them $3,500 each. The ROC had an opera, based on a famous fairy tale by the poet Alexander Pushkin, censored to the point of cutting out the priest, who is the tale...