BONNIE WATSON COLEMAN AND HOUSE DEMOCRATS FAITH WORKING GROUP RESPONSE TO ACA REPEAL

If my Republican colleagues, many of whom are rooted in faith just as we are, are truly interested in helping the American people, I would also point them to the second Chapter of James which puts it best: Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don’t have enough to eat. What good is there in your saying to them, “God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!” – if you don’t give them the necessities of life?” I’d point them to the third chapter of First John: “If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?... Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” Health care is a fundamental necessity of life… and one that I will fight as hard as I can to preserve with actions and truth, not just rhetoric.