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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co...rticle/2006/08/30/AR2006083003290.html
The whole artical is three pages.
If you truly have faith, then don't see a doctor and let God fix everything. If you lack faith and need medical science, then don't shun such simple things as birth control. If you are having issues having children, God doesn't want you to. If you don't think God has anything to do with it, use medical science and see a real specialist and not some nut-job. If I go to a doctor I don't want to know his or her religion and I don't want my options limited. If you are going to be some priest-doctor hybrid then make it clear and put a huge cross and picture of Jesus all over your building and literature so sane people can avoid you like the quack you are.
The practice combines "the best of modern medicine with the healing presence of Jesus Christ," a brochure at the reception desk announces. An image of the Madonna greets every patient. Doctors, nurses and staff members gather to pray each day before the first appointments.
The center is one of a small but growing number of practices around the country that tailor the care they provide to the religious beliefs of their doctors, shunning birth-control and morning-after pills, IUDs and other contraceptive devices, sterilizations, and abortions, as well as in vitro fertilization. Instead, doctors offer "natural family planning" -- teaching couples to monitor a woman's temperature and other bodily signals to time intercourse.
The whole artical is three pages.
If you truly have faith, then don't see a doctor and let God fix everything. If you lack faith and need medical science, then don't shun such simple things as birth control. If you are having issues having children, God doesn't want you to. If you don't think God has anything to do with it, use medical science and see a real specialist and not some nut-job. If I go to a doctor I don't want to know his or her religion and I don't want my options limited. If you are going to be some priest-doctor hybrid then make it clear and put a huge cross and picture of Jesus all over your building and literature so sane people can avoid you like the quack you are.