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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Are you high? Let me tell you what the priest said last week in husband's church. "i don't want to get into talking about politics, but just for the record, stem cell research is wrong and abortion is wrong and the church is against it. I'm not telling you how to vote, but you should vote for Bush because he is against these things."
In church. On Sunday.
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Hell, they've been pulling that shit here in PA since the mid 80s when Casey, a pro-life candidate, was running for governor.*
* To Casey's credit, he bucked the political machine by refusing to endorse the death penalty, and would not sign a death warrant in office. Of course, the people who cry about stem cell research today don't mention iraq or the death penalty. Their latest trick to get around the contradiction of favoring the DP while opposing stem cells/abortion os to characterize abortion and stem cell research as "non-debatable", "urgent" and "foundational" (a word with no real meaning) and the war and DP as "debatable". Interesting. The gibberish explanation offered makes no sense, but the long and the short of it is, "We don't care as much about dead Ameircan and Iraqis, or the moral issues attendant to executing people as we do about preventing people from being able to use stem cells and stopping pregnancies."
I applaud the Church, I really do. Its a hell of a thing to say "Damnit, we've got no ground to stand on here, but we still expect you to listen to us."
