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In reply to the discussion: "Vow of Poverty" - the $7-million beach house of Rev. Mike Huckabee [View all]Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)32. I'm saying that other people have different experiences.
Some people are completely worn down by taking care of a disabled child. Such as in the occasional case where someone cannot cope with the situation and kills the child because they are in extremis. Or in the secondhand quote I cited of mothers that drop dead from the stress.
Other people don't have the same resources the Santorums do, such as money for extra nurses, therapy, persons to relieve the parents when they need to rest or tend to their other children or whatever, above the bare bones the state or the Feds would provide to a disabled child.
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It is true most don't take such a vow, but Matthew 6:24 is not ambiguous on the subject
Major Nikon
Feb 2015
#12
Well, Jesus disagrees with you, because if verse 24 wasn't enough, 25-33 drive the point home
Major Nikon
Feb 2015
#46
I wonder what the citizens of Arkansas think of him moving to no-state-income-tax Florida
Tanuki
Feb 2015
#8