Why I Support the Healthcare Reform Bill - part one, the one sided conversation.

The other day my wife commented that no one she knows from our friends and family supports the healthcare reform bill and that got me to wondering why. Why do so many “Christians” oppose a bill that does something I see as a moral imperative, providing affordable healthcare to millions of Americans who otherwise could not ever hope to afford it.

One of my conclusions was that people are not hearing from those who support the bill, only from those who oppose it. None of my friends or family except my wife would know from what I have said that I support this bill, and perhaps there are more people like me in our circle of acquaintances. People who don’t like to argue and so just keep quiet when the topic comes up. In other words, the people who oppose the healthcare reform bill are talking louder than those who support it, perhaps because they are angry that they lost and we are not angry because we won.

I am going to post a small series of blogs about why I support the president and the healthcare reform bill. I figure this is America and healthy respectful dialog should be something I can expect from my friends and family no matter what the issue is that is being discussed.

My dogs and my kid

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My dogs and my kid ;-)

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2nd degree condemnation

I have problems with people who think other people are going to hell simply because those other people don't think some 3rd set of other people are going to hell.

I hope that makes sense.

CHMS

What church management system does your church use?

What size is your church?

Do you think churches of under 200 attendees would pay 5 to 10 a month for a chms?

- just some thoughts I a processing.

Changing a column display name in vb when using dynamicdata

I am working on a completely new version of the Church Management System I started building back when I was working at CHF. Since this is a new project I thought I would use it to learn a new technology. I am building this site using Asp.net Dynamic Data.

One problem I ran into was how to change the column display name since my database uses column names with underscores for spaces and I want an actual space between parts of the column name when using the app. To do this you need to use the Display Name attribute in your meta class. Unfortunately this attribute only works on a full property and not on a simple object like other System.ComponentModel attributes seem to. So in my Meta Data class I created a dummy property with the same name as the actual property I want to change the display name for.

<DisplayName("Address Type")> _
Public Property Address_Type() As String
'These are not actually used, they are just required to make this into
'a true property which is required for the DisplayName Attribute.
Get
Return ""
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
End Set
End Property


Here is the entire class for you to look at:

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System.Web.DynamicData
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations

<MetadataType(GetType(CHMS_Address_TypeMetaData))> _
Partial Public Class CHMS_Address_Type


End Class

<TableName("Address Types")> _
Public Class CHMS_Address_TypeMetaData

<DisplayName("Address Type")> _
Public Property Address_Type() As String
'These are not actually used, they are just required to make this into
'a true property which is required for the DisplayName Attribute.
Get
Return ""
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
End Set
End Property

'Columns I want hidden
<ScaffoldColumn(False)> _
Public Church_ID As Object

<ScaffoldColumn(False)> _
Public Created As Object

<ScaffoldColumn(False)> _
Public Created_By As Object

<ScaffoldColumn(False)> _
Public Last_Edited As Object

<ScaffoldColumn(False)> _
Public Last_Edited_By As Object

<ScaffoldColumn(False)> _
Public IsDeleted As Object

End Class

A New Kind of Christianity

Yesterday I finally bought Brian D Mclaren's http://www.brianmclaren.net/ latest book A New Kind of Christianity. I an liking it so far. It is messing with my overarching worldview in a good way.