Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith is an Embarrassment and Danger to Indiana

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Click on the image for a video segment from the June 4 Town Hall

What I predicted in my Op-Ed in the Indianapolis Star last year is playing out right now: Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith wants to impose theocracy on Indiana. He does so in a very sly way. He wants to use the budget cuts to public healthcare passed this year to promote faith groups he approves of to push their narrow values on those in need.

Beckwith prescribes praying the sick away while preying on the most vulnerable in the state.

That is basically what he said yesterday (video here) in a contentious town hall in Greenfield, which made headlines primarily because of Beckwith’s state-sponsored anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.

But his proposal in this town hall (minute 6:00) to replace quality healthcare with ideologically driven faith-based nonprofits is just as dangerous. The budget signed into law by Governor Braun has cut 60 % of funds for public healthcare. Those funds had previously been used to fight, for instance, m…