Today, I received a complaint about my prayer at the hospital. The doctor who was offended told the other chaplain that my prayer should have included a Catholic trinitarian formula. In other words, the doctor complained that I did not open the prayer with, "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit."
I read an article today about a woman who was on her way to school, ready to catch a bus, when someone hailed her down. She pieced together that there was a young woman in labor nearby and ran over to help her. Miraculously, despite the fact that the laboring woman spoke no English and the other woman had no medical knowledge, she was able to assist her in delivering a healthy baby. It was a beautiful and happy story that ended with the baby being named after the woman who helped deliver it.
I was reading the Internet commenters' opinions on the article expecting nothing but well wishers and the occasional negative jab (it is the Internet, afterall), but the majority of the comments focused on the fact that the woman in labor spoke no English. They lamented the fact that this woman was probably an illegal alien and that she shouldn't have reproduced here in America.
Complaints about prayers. Complaints about healthy babies.
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