NYC Council Speaker Prefers Dead New Yorkers Over Help From Christians Demands Field Hospital Be Abandoned
This is the world we live in now…
New York City’s Common Council is demanding that Franklin’s Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse field hospital in New York City be abandoned and left immediately because they are Christians.
The field hospital is set up in New York City’s Central Park and it is being run by Franklin Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse organization, they were on of the first organizations that responded to the hotspot to help; they were also one of the first organizations to help in Italy.
Corey Johnson, a Democrat New York City Beruacrat opposed the help when the group arrived upset that Rev. Franklin Graham is a Christian and supports traditional marriage, he wanted them thrown out of the city.
“It is time for Samaritan’s Purse to leave NYC. This group, led by the notoriously bigoted, hate-spewing Franklin Graham, came at a time when our city couldn’t in good conscience turn away any offer of help. That time has passed,” Johnson, who is both openly gay and HIV-positive, according to The New York Times, wrote in the first of his series of attacks on Samaritan’s Purse.
“Their continued presence here is an affront to our values of inclusion, and is painful for all New Yorkers who care deeply about the LGBTQ community,” he wrote.
Their continued presence here is an affront to our values of inclusion, and is painful for all New Yorkers who care deeply about the LGBTQ community. 2/
— NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson (@NYCSpeakerCoJo) May 1, 2020
Johnson is also demanding that Mount Sinai Hospital cease and desist working with the group.
“Mount Sinai must sever its relationship with Samaritan’s Purse,” he wrote.
The @NYCCouncil is committed to supporting those workers and protecting our city’s public health. But as a city that values diversity and compassion for all, we can’t continue allowing a group with their track record to remain here when we’re past the point they’re needed. 4/
— NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson (@NYCSpeakerCoJo) May 1, 2020
The field hospital is scheduled to close in a couple of weeks because the pandemic has subsided in the city. Other facilities that popped up in the city have also closed, the USS Comfort left New York, as well as the COVID-19 facility at the Javits Center.
“Since April 1st, this partnership has resulted in high-quality medical care for 315 patients infected with the virus. We are grateful for this opportunity to work together to save lives and reduce suffering,” Samaritan’s Purse and Mount Sinai announced in a joint statement, Gothamist reported. “Now that the surge in COVID hospital admissions is reaching manageable levels, we will stop admitting new patients to the Central Park field hospital as of May 4.”
This is such a perfect example of the good samaritan, who helped a Jew that was left for dead even though it violated social norms of the day. Then here is this knucklehead in NYC that wants a hospital gone because it’s run by Christians however, they are still there to help.