I recently received a mass mailing to clergy encouraging support of an advertisement “from the Faith Community to Senators Snowe and Collins,” about health care reform and providing the clergy with a list of “talking points.”

Although everyone wants affordable health care, I do not agree with the advertisement (in the Sun Journal Nov. 18) in favor of the partisan bills essentially advocating a form of socialized medicine. I believe that many members of the clergy do not support a partisan health care bill, especially one that has not been read by the public before it is amended and passed in the middle of the night.

The Rev. Dr. David Pillsbury, Durham