Health reform fires up Vermont's faith-based activists

After an hour of watching the televised, bipartisan health-reform summit Thursday, everyone in the room agreed: Health-insurance policy cannot remain a spectator sport. The course of action: Stay informed and weigh in with legislators. The nonprofit Vermont Interfaith Action hosted a gathering at its Burlington office, and its members kept their comments down to a dull roar as Congressmen intoned for and against the Senate's reform bill. The Vermont Interfaith Action (a group that includes several Christian denominations and Jews) maintains a nonpartisan approach to social justice, said Debbie Ingram, the group's executive director. But, she added, Vermonters whose commitments to reform are couched in faith need to get off the couch.

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