We are only as free as the government says we are

Would the US government let Jesus cure cancer? (Hat tip: Kristie H.)
In the 1990s, I watched a federal trial in a Los Angeles courtroom. The defendant was charged with selling medical drugs without a license to practice medicine. The defendant was prepared to argue that a) the substance he was selling was naturally produced in the body and b) it was effective. The prosecution moved to exclude such testimony, on the grounds that it was irrelevant. The judge agreed. Therefore, the trial was nasty, brutish, and short. The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to prison for several years. This is how the federal bureaucracy operates. “Do you have a government-issued license to heal? No? You’re a criminal.” ✧ I believe that if Jesus of Nazareth were walking the Earth today, in the United States, he would be arrested on the same grounds. This would be particularly so if he were curing cancer. Jesus wouldn’t be granted a license. No license? Guilty. More importantly, the trillion-dollar cancer industry survives and makes its money by treating cancer, so curing it would be a major threat.

Imagine this extreme case: in a stadium packed with 50,000 people who have been diagnosed with cancer, Jesus of Nazareth waves his hand and cures all of them in a few seconds. Read more at Activist Post...

Feds forced churches to get baptism permits
For as far back as anyone can remember, Missouri Baptists have gathered on river banks for Sunday afternoon baptisms. ✧ The preacher leads the new believers into the water, draped in white robes as a choir sings, “Shall We Gather at the River.” ✧ It’s the way it’s been done for generations – baptizing in creeks, lakes, and rivers “in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.” ✧ But now the long-cherished tradition of “taking the plunge” has been drawn into a controversy with the federal government. Read more at Todd's American Dispatch...

Really? --bc