Take two communion wafers and call me in the morning

Oh boy:

The conservative vision of ideal government, which few locals question and which the Republicans have made part of their low-tax mantra, sees government as a kind of infrastructure guarantor only, even when the conversation turns to America's admittedly troubled health care system.

"I don't think the government owes people health care," says youth pastor and newly elected public high school board member Chad Vegas. "If we were doing things ideally in this country, it would be churches' responsibility to provide health care, using Christian doctors."

What's scary to me is not that Chad Vegas has these views and no doubt preaches them to his followers, but that someone with a view like this can get elected to a public school board. Imagine if he introduced something like this into the local civics class.

And I have no idea how "ideally" churches would be able to provide health care for the nation without some sort of grant that would end up decimating the idea of separation of church and state. On the plus side, I'm sure that Hindus, Muslims, and Jews would love the idea of church sponsored "Christian" doctors. It's about time we brought back the faith healers into the spotlight, anyway.