Thursday, July 20, 2006

Another Schiavo moment

[*] I think that Congress should have named the stem cell research bill recently vetoed by president swagger the Robin Bush War on leukemia bill. It might have illustrated to the president the cruelty of his position.

[*] The US will find it must choose between maintaining military superiority and advancing the cause of theocratic science. The last time the superstition police had the upper hand is the era known to scientists as "The Dark Ages".

[*] During the Inquisition religiously inspired Spanish Catholics "tore [Native American] babes from their mother's breast by their feet, and dashed their heads against the rocks.". Sometimes the babies would first be baptized. It was perhaps the first time compassionate conservatism was put into practice on American soil.

This episode in Christian morality suggests that fundamentalists can get over their stem cell research objections by baptizing stem cells before they are used in research. If it is good enough for fully-born babies it ought to be good enough for a cluster of blastocyst cells.

[*] Perhaps scientists ought to call stem-cell research invitro fertilization science. There are no religious moral objections to invitro fertilization even though it is the same process (stem cell researches want access to unused stem cells generated via the invitro fertilization process).

[*] Once again the hobgoblin of little minds is to blame for spreading human suffering.

[*] Once again religious leaders celebrate the defeat of Hope as if it were a moral victory.

[*] Once again president Bush legislates as a theocrat.

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