Friday, June 17, 2016

Medicaid, Faith-Healing Work Groups to Be Named Friday | Idaho Government and Politics | magicvalley.com

H/T::Breaking Their Will: Religious Child Abuse and Neglect

Idaho’s child-neglect laws currently exempt parents from prosecution if a child gets sick or dies when the parents are trying to treat them through faith healing. Boise Democrat John Gannon first introduced legislation in 2014 to modify the law in cases where serious injury or death could result, after the higher-than-normal number of child deaths among the faith-healing Followers of Christ denomination, which has some adherents in Idaho, hit the news. His bills haven’t gotten a hearing, with some Republicans saying they oppose changing the law on religious freedom grounds.

Medicaid, Faith-Healing Work Groups to Be Named Friday | Idaho Government and Politics | magicvalley.com

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