I feel compelled to respond to Esther Confino’s Aug. 31 letter of criticism of other letter writers; namely, Catherine Urso, Frederick, and Dr. Stephen Morris.
As for your criticism of Catherine Urso’s letter, you totally missed her point. She was responding to the anti-Romney (“Romney killed my wife”) ad in which a man states he lost his job at Bain Capital, so he lost his insurance, and his wife died of cancer, blaming, in effect, that Romney killed his wife.
Ms. Urso’s letter clearly stated the true facts in that story: that the man at Bain Capital was offered a buyout, but he refused it, and then, five years later, his wife , who had her own insurance, contracted cancer.
However, in Catherine Urso’s letter, she stated that the economy is so bad that her brother lost his job, got a lesser one, and was laid off from that one, too. He became ill and could not get treated as he was laid off, and had no insurance. Catherine was clearly rebutting: If illegal immigrants with no insurance can be treated for free, why couldn’t her brother?
Did Obama kill her brother? That’s a logical rebuttal question to me. Your Aug. 31 response shows that the truth of the matter flew right over your head.
Esther, on the issue of pro-life, you state to the writer, Frederick, “you are free to believe in and practice your religion…”
Not so fast, Ms. Confino, the HHS mandate does not do a hoot to separate church and state, but rather the HHS mandate refuses to accommodate religious employers and private employers who conscientioiusly object to covering contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization – lest they be penalized out of existence for following their conscience.
In addition, this mandate of the Obama administration continues to ignore what this mandate means for women and families who value religion. You tried to remind Frederick that “our constitution guarantees that the government will not interfere in the practice of religion, and therefore that there is a separation between church and state.”
And yet, Ms. Confino, here is the “interference” our current administration, through the HHS Mandate has given us: They’ve deprived people the liberty of following their conscience when they object.
Before Obamacare, we had this liberty. Now it has been robbed from us. That is unconstitutional.
What else does the government feel they wish to mandate? Maybe the next mandate will hit a nerve with you as well.
The liberty to which I refer, Ms. Confino, is what was fought for by our founding fathers in our Constitution. From reading your letter, I strongly suggest that you get a better handle on that Constitution to which you refer, and read, “Not a Living Breathing Document: Reclaiming our Constitution.”
As for your criticism of Dr. Stephen Morris, I just happened to know him personally, Ms. Confino.
You state that he “shows little compassion for the very poor, and even less understanding of the whole problem of the unemployed and dependent.”
However, the truth is: Dr. Morris is a doctor who, although now retired, treated Medicaid patients every Wednesday at LIJ Hospital and supervised the training of the dental residents. This weekly dedication was totally free of charge – every Wednesday. This altruistic behavior went on for a full twenty years, from 1970 to 1990.
I rest my case.
Rosanne Spinner
New Hyde Park
