Utah Sen. Dan McCay, R-Riverton, triggered a small storm on social media Saturday after posting about a coalition of faith and community leaders who are urging the Legislature to enact full Medicaid expansion under the voter-approved Proposition 3.
Suggesting an “alternative headline” to media coverage of the coalition, McCay derided the faith leaders for turning to the government after their religious organizations had, he said, failed to care for the poor.
“Alternative headline,” McCay wrote, “40 faith leaders acknowledge the failure of their faith to follow Jesus’ command to care for the poor and ask the government to be Christian.