Re: These days, anything goes. Anyway, I'm not one who has taboos. Dislikes, yes, but not taboos.
Talking of taboos... Has the GOP morphed into a Judeo-Protestant Hezbollah of sorts? Clue:
In my state, Missouri, Republicans in the General Assembly have advanced legislation to criminalize even stem cell research in which the cells are artificially produced in petri dishes and will never be transplanted into the human uterus. They argue that such cells are human life that must be protected, by threat of criminal prosecution, from promising research on diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and juvenile diabetes.
It is not evident to many of us that cells in a petri dish are equivalent to identifiable people suffering from terrible diseases. I am and have always been pro-life. But the only explanation for legislators comparing cells in a petri dish to babies in the womb is the extension of religious doctrine into statutory law.
I do not fault religious people for political action. Since Moses confronted the pharaoh, faithful people have heard God's call to political involvement. Nor has political action been unique to conservative Christians. Religious liberals have been politically active in support of gay rights and against nuclear weapons and the death penalty. In America, everyone has the right to try to influence political issues, regardless of his religious motivations.
The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.
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Cells are human life?!?!? What's next? Masturbation?
Teenagers BEWARE!!! Next time you play five-on-one watching your favorite XXX DVD, you ain't just sinning --you're committing a GENOCIDE... that is, a SPERMICIDE!!! Killing billions of fellow, unborn, human beings in one fell JERK!
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