Document Type
Newsletter
Publication Year
1979
Excerpt
"No insurance company can write insurance on burning buildings and stay in business very long."
The burning buildings in this case are severely handicapped children, and the insurance company is the Lutheran Church in America's Board of Pensions.
Dr. Edwin Wang used this analogy to explain the LCA's decision, beginning in 1976, to deny health and pension plan coverage to children adopted by LCA professional church workers-if those children have pre-existing severe handicaps. Any severely handicapped person who wants to enter the ministry in the LCA would also be ineligible for health and pension coverage.
Recommended Citation
Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, "The Vanguard (Vol. 26, No. 5), June 1979" (1979). The Vanguard. 227.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/vanguard/227
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