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Questions mount over Christian group behind Central Park Covid-19 hospital [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Questions mount over Christian group behind Central Park Covid-19 hospital
Facility run by Trump ally Franklin Graham’s organisation requires staff to sign statement opposing gay marriage
Miranda Bryant in New York
Sun 19 Apr 2020 12.00 BST
Last modified on Sun 19 Apr 2020 12.01 BST
When big white field hospital tents appeared in Central Park in late March, they became a potent symbol of the scale and severity of New York’s coronavirus crisis.
But just over two weeks since the opening of the 68-bed facility run by Franklin Graham’s organisation Samaritan’s Purse, questions are mounting over why the controversial religious leader viewed by many to be homophobic, Islamophobic and politically extreme was chosen to perform this vital role outside Mount Sinai hospital on Fifth Avenue, and who sanctioned it.
Graham, a close ally whom Donald Trump praised in a recent briefing, has previously described Islam as “evil” and has described gay people as “the enemy”. Coronavirus, he recently said, was a result of “the sin that’s in the world”.
Samaritan’s Purse – which has so far treated 130 coronavirus patients and has about 90 staff at the Central Park field hospital – requires all staff and volunteers to sign a “statement of faith”.
Statements in the document include “we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female” and “human life is sacred from conception to its natural end”.
The decision to allow the group to run such a key Covid-19 effort in the city has drawn protests from both activists and politicians.
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Facility run by Trump ally Franklin Graham’s organisation requires staff to sign statement opposing gay marriage
Miranda Bryant in New York
Sun 19 Apr 2020 12.00 BST
Last modified on Sun 19 Apr 2020 12.01 BST
When big white field hospital tents appeared in Central Park in late March, they became a potent symbol of the scale and severity of New York’s coronavirus crisis.
But just over two weeks since the opening of the 68-bed facility run by Franklin Graham’s organisation Samaritan’s Purse, questions are mounting over why the controversial religious leader viewed by many to be homophobic, Islamophobic and politically extreme was chosen to perform this vital role outside Mount Sinai hospital on Fifth Avenue, and who sanctioned it.
Graham, a close ally whom Donald Trump praised in a recent briefing, has previously described Islam as “evil” and has described gay people as “the enemy”. Coronavirus, he recently said, was a result of “the sin that’s in the world”.
Samaritan’s Purse – which has so far treated 130 coronavirus patients and has about 90 staff at the Central Park field hospital – requires all staff and volunteers to sign a “statement of faith”.
Statements in the document include “we believe that marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female” and “human life is sacred from conception to its natural end”.
The decision to allow the group to run such a key Covid-19 effort in the city has drawn protests from both activists and politicians.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/19/questions-mount-over-christian-group-behind-central-park-covid-19-hospital
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