Doctor Refuses Treatment to Children of the Tattooed

Apparently, the presence of this on my body is justification enough to be refused medical attention. More dastardly, the presence of this on my body is also enough to refuse my daughter medical attention.

Perhaps more baffling than the refusal is the rationale behind it. The doctor is a Christian, and believes that tattoos degrade his office. He is trying to be upstanding and moral you see, and that means banning the tattooed from treatment.

I am not a religious man. I have never read the Bible. But surely Jesus Christ wasn’t refusing salvation to individuals depending upon their appearance. Or perhaps he was, just as Mother Theresa, while working with poor in Calcutta, refused treatment to “the icky, the gross, and generally different.”

Mother Theresa famously said, “I don’t mind working with those who are different from me, as long as they are exactly like me in every conceivable way.”

Oh wait - she never said that. That was the Christian doctor mentioned earlier. My mistake.