Christopher Hitchens vs. Pat Buchanan Part 6: Prayer and Single-Payer Health Care (1993)

August 23, 1993 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww....

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Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (born March 22, 1930) is a prominent political spokesman for the Christian right in American politics and a highly visible spokesman in the media for Fundamentalist religion. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment Inc., Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, and Regent University. He is the host of The 700 Club, a Christian TV program airing on channels throughout the United States and on CBN affiliates worldwide.

The son of U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson, Robertson is a Southern Baptist and was active as an ordained minister with that denomination for many years, but holds to a charismatic theology not traditionally common among Southern Baptists. He unsuccessfully campaigned to become the Republican Party's nominee in the 1988 presidential election. As a result of his seeking political office, he no longer serves in an official role for any church. His media and financial resources make him a recognized, influential, and controversial public voice for conservative Christianity in the United States.

Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11, 1933 -- May 15, 2007) was a Christian evangelical fundamentalist Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative commentator from the U.S. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and cofounded the Moral Majority in 1979.

School prayer in its common usage refers to state-approved prayer by students in state schools. Depending on the country and the type of school, organized prayer may be required, permitted, or proscribed. Countries which prohibit school prayer often differ in their reasons for doing so: the separation of church and state is the United States' basis for doing so (as proscribed in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution); Freedom of conscience is Canada's; and, similar to the United States, France's rationale is the laïcité concept.

Prayer done by private individuals by themselves when on state grounds is generally considered to be a form of free expression, and restrictions against it generally have been removed or struck down in modern democracies. However, totalitarian countries such as North Korea and, in its time, the Soviet Union have taken action against private religious expression in schools.

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[awitty1]

Thumbs up if you watched this just to hear Hitch!

[SmelOdies]

"I think balance is a ludicrous concept." - Ha! I love it.

[fyadcorp]

Hillary' proposed health insurance went over like a ton of bricks in the early 90s, because health insurance premiums were reasonable and service seemed good enough. Not many on the left supported it. Today the health insurance is laughable bureaucracy that is increasingly offering fewer services in spite of higher premiums, and that's why single-payer is catching on with more people. If not for the waste and inefficiency of the free market system, such support would not exist.

[50waystol]

Love Pat and Christopher.

[nutsackmania]

You're a FUCK, Pat.

[moroney1]

@hammertime419 How exactly is he to the right?! He is most definetly not WTF

[emantabrizi]

1993? This sounds like every political conversation from the past three years.

[Killerjosh89]

the first caller is what I would call a reasonable christian

[Killerjosh89]

@awitty1 my computer wont allow me to "thumbs up" your comment, but thumbs up.