Although I have to admit it came as no great surprise, I was disappointed yesterday when the Iowa City VA Hospital & Clinic apparently struck back in response to my on-going vigorous and justifiable campaign to assert my Constitutional Rights and assist the Iowa City VA Hospital & Clinic in rectifying an alarming pattern of religious discrimination.
Even after my meeting with the VA patient advocate and a representative from Chaplain Services Wednesday (accompanied by my Rabbi), the VA has agreed to rectify only one of the issues of religious discrimination I have brought forward: they have agreed to provide kosher food for patients who request it. During my three hospitalizations at the Iowa City VA Hospital I had been denied kosher food and had to endure each hospitalization without eating. Regarding all other issues, both those I have addressed within my blog and others: the VA has refused outright to take action on some, and others the VA has agreed only to "look into."
Certainly the Iowa City VA’s resistance to correcting obvious and on-going examples of religious discrimination was serious enough on the face of it; but yesterday they upped the ante.
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