9 Things the Media Messed Up About the Obama Stem Cell Story – Only nine? Seriously, it is sad and scary how incompetent and/or complicit the media is in perpetuating so many lies about this important issue.
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Check out this video and story about a pop song dealing with leaving the “gay” lifestyle (you know, another one of those people who don’t exist)
Italy’s “Festival di San Remo,” the most important musical happening in my country which is seen on T.V. by millions of Italians, became the unlikely platform this year for a powerful ex-gay testimony. The singer, Giuseppe Povia, winner of the festival in 2006, presented a song entitled, “Luca Era Gay” (Luca was once gay) The title of his song, implying that some gays can change to heterosexuality, was sufficient to destabilize the Italian gay movement. Gay activists threatened to block the festival, and Europarlimentary member Vittorio Agnoletto asked for a European resolution to stop Povia from peforming the song. Povia, himself, received death threats. The gay association “Everyone” denounced Povia to the Procura of the Republic for alleged “homophobia.” These efforts failing, gay activists then asked the Festival organizers to “counterbalance” Povia with a song by a gay singer, about “the perfection of homosexual love.” That effort too, failed.
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Bill Clinton flunks basic biology – He stated multiple times that embryos aren’t fertilized. The press would have skewered McCain, Palin or President Bush for saying something so wrong.
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Blogroll addition: Zoo Station. Check it out. It has been in my blog reader forever but I didn’t realize he wasn’t on my blogroll.
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Minnesota offers mortages to Muslims that pretend to be without interest – No religious preferences there, eh? I wonder if they don’t take the tax deduction for the interest? If so, I suppose that helps the tax receipts for the Feds. The ACLU is going crazy over this, of course. Oh, wait, no they aren’t.
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Use aborted foetus organs in transplants, urges scientist
Kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses could be given to the desperately ill and ease the organ donor shortage, a leading scientist has claimed.
But the proposal has horrified pro-life and Christian groups, who say it is ‘morally abhorrent’, and raises the prospect of abortions being timed to suit transplant patients.
Yeah, those crazy pro-lifers and Christians think we shouldn’t grow human beings just to kill them and take their organs.
But Professor Stuart Campbell, who has argued for the abortion time limit to be lowered, had no ethical objections to the proposal.
He said many babies were aborted quite late, ‘and if they are going to be terminated, it is a shame to waste their organs’.
He added: ‘I am sure very few of those on the transplant list would rather die than accept an organ from an aborted foetus.’
Well, that seals the deal. They might not mind taking an organ from a prisoner or homeless person, either.
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You know, that separation of mosque and state that the constitution talks about.
I saw the Bill Clinton thing and was too upset – and gobsmacked – to even blog it. Gah.
As for the organ thing: I’m pro-life, and I do care about people who are already alive, but my take on this is the same as to the argument that women shouldn’t have to be pregnant if they don’t want to be: the ends don’t justify the means.
In theory, allowing condemned prisoners to give up their organs (or forcibly taking them) would save lives and contribute to the greater good. If the last two words aren’t a tip-off that something sinister is afoot, consider the logical implications of using human beings as organ farms. I’ve often said that the greatest good would come from me killing myself via organ harvest: two healthy lungs, a healthy heart, two good kidneys, a liver that could be split three ways, a pancreas, oddles of bone marrow, and a gallon of blood – that’s at least a dozen lives saved, right there!
Once we go from seeing organ donation as a gift to organ donation as a part of the “greater good,” with some people being expendable, we’ve lost any principled justification for preventing human rights atrocities.