This is why Congress is not in the medical profession.

Hmm, I guess all of that praying was sort of a waste.

"The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain," he said (Dr. Thogmartin, one of the doctors who did the autopsy on Terry). "This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."

For people of faith I think the lesson is to not allow yourselves to be jerked around by your beliefs so that others can use you to for their own nefarious goals.