Hat Tip to Lone Star Times for some great commentary on the recent news.
Chaplains at a hospice in Florida are banned from using the word God or Lord in public.
A chaplain at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton has resigned she says over a ban on use of the words God" or Lord" in public settings.
Signorelli of Royal Palm Beach said the hospice policy has a chilling effect that goes beyond the monthly staff meetings. She would have to watch her language she said when leading a prayer in the hospice chapel when meeting patients in the public setting of a nursing home and in weekly patient conferences with doctors nurses and social workers.
If you take God away from me" she said its like taking a medical tool away from a nurse."
Pretty incredible. The administrator claims she was just trying to respect the faith of people without faith and only in staff meetings.
I was sensitive to the fact that we dont impose religion on our staff and that it is not appropriate in the context of a staff meeting to use certain phrases or God or Holy Father because some of our staff dont believe at all" Alderson said.
But as with most attempts to control people the law of unintended consequences takes over.
Signorelli said her supervisor recently singled her out for delivering a spiritual reflection in the chapel that included the word Lord" and had a Christian connotation."
But that was the 23rd Psalm" Signorelli said not strictly speaking Christian as it appears in the Old Testament.
And I am well aware that there were people from the Jewish tradition in attendance. I didnt say Jesus or Allah or Jehovah. I used Lord and God which I think are politically correct. I think thats as generic as you can get."
Hat Tip to Lone Star Times for some great commentary on the recent news.
Chaplains at a hospice in Florida are banned from using the word God or Lord in public.
A chaplain at Hospice by the Sea in Boca Raton has resigned she says over a ban on use of the words God" or Lord" in public settings.
Signorelli of Royal Palm Beach said the hospice policy has a chilling effect that goes beyond the monthly staff meetings. She would have to watch her language she said when leading a prayer in the hospice chapel when meeting patients in the public setting of a nursing home and in weekly patient conferences with doctors nurses and social workers.
If you take God away from me" she said its like taking a medical tool away from a nurse."
Pretty incredible. The administrator claims she was just trying to respect the faith of people without faith and only in staff meetings.
I was sensitive to the fact that we dont impose religion on our staff and that it is not appropriate in the context of a staff meeting to use certain phrases or God or Holy Father because some of our staff dont believe at all" Alderson said.
But as with most attempts to control people the law of unintended consequences takes over.
Signorelli said her supervisor recently singled her out for delivering a spiritual reflection in the chapel that included the word Lord" and had a Christian connotation."
But that was the 23rd Psalm" Signorelli said not strictly speaking Christian as it appears in the Old Testament.
And I am well aware that there were people from the Jewish tradition in attendance. I didnt say Jesus or Allah or Jehovah. I used Lord and God which I think are politically correct. I think thats as generic as you can get."
