Praying nurses

[ciphergoth]

Nurse suspended without pay for offering to pray for a patient during a home visit - what do you think?

(Snowed in today, trying to work from home but it's not really a workplace atmosphere around here today :-)

Updated: the patient is described as a Christian in the article. One wonders if this means Christian as in really a Christian, or "Christian I suppose" which AFAICT is the majority religion of the UK. Updated: actually "have Christian beliefs myself" is more like the phrasing I'd expect from someone who takes it seriously.

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

That's different, they're children - who gives a damn what they want so long as their voting parents get what they want?

[henry_the_cow]

LJ says "(Reply to this)(Parent)" which in this instance I take as an instruction...

Generally, parents get little say about the religion taught in schools, unless they send their children to a faith-based school, or cause them embarrassment by insisting that they don't attend assembly/RE classes/whatever. (Come to think of it, I don't even know if that's an option in our school).

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

heh... I guess I was mainly thinking of religious schools - I forgot about the compulsory daily act of worship.