Just when I think I have no time to think about choice
So much going on in the news this week. Between the Westboro Bible Church and Cecily's Blog entry on Snowflake Babies. I just can't stop thinking about the difficulty of the ethical question of choice.
please take a look and remember that these are not simple questions with simple answers. The further we travel into science and learn to do things previously thought of as God's powers the deeper the ethical questions run. While it is easy to try to boil it down to one absolute and apply the 10 commandments to that absolute, life just doesn't work like that. God didn't give us this ability to choose without giving us a challenge.
According to my conservative husband, Republicans want less government interference. They feel that the government's interference in our lives costs money and limits freedom? So why are the conservatives taking over the Republican Party and trying to take away our freedoms?
http://www.nightlight.org/snowflakeslanding.asp
Is a Christian organization? So why is the President of the United states backing them in such an obvious way? Read on. Their FAQ states that they do not reject single mothers, but most of their clients do. Read between the lines there. They also state that adopting families do not need to be Christian. I wonder how many of their genetic families would take a Pagan family.
Bottom line, let's stop letting Christian organizations be the only ones to set moral code here. The decision to adopt out embryo should be up to the genetic couple. And while we are on the subject of the adoption of embryo and this Nightlight organization using existing adoption law to place embryo, how does that affect abortion law? One of the arguments in Roe V. Wade was that no existing laws in the US recognized a fetus as being a life. A fetus is not granted any rights or privileges or protections under our law.
Thank you to those men out there who decided to kill their pregnant wives. Now the conservatives have decided to protect the life of the fetus by stating that an act of murder against a pregnant woman could be tried as two counts of murder. One against the mother and the other against the fetus. I'm frankly surprised that Scott Peterson has not argued against this using Roe v. Wade.
When this law was first introduced in various states, my reaction was -- good. An additional punishment against wife abusers. But now, I'm wondering if this is all just another way to erode the strength of Roe v. Wade.
So moving on to further conservative hate propaganda.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/05/antigay_pickets_raise_ire/?page=2
http://www.boston.com/news/necn/New_England/ They strike again in Dracut, Lexington and Bedford.
The Westboro Bible church brought their knuckle-dragers to the Northeast today to protest in front of children. With signs that read America deserved 9/11 and God Hates Gays, they made total fools of themselves in Lexington as parishioners arrived for mass at a local Catholic church.
I am ever so proud at the intelligent thoughtful response of the citizens of Lexington. They stood in a chain opposite the protesters and turned their backs on the protest and its hate-filled signs. Each citizen sported a piece of paper with the name of their church/temple on their backs in a sign of solidarity.
Maybe, just maybe, the mass of citizens standing there with their backs to the protesters blocked the sight of those signs from some child who is just too young to be pulled into this war and exposed to such extreme vitriol.
Sort of makes you think. WWJD? Something tells me that he wouldn't be holding the sign that says "God Hates Gays."
And in the meantime, the father in Lexington that got upset that his child brought home a book about different families denies that he supports this protest by the Kansas "church." Hello? Is your hate and fear of people who are different from you any nicer because you don't use nasty language to express it? The book was a great way to explain to your child that she won't always see families like her own. It in no way challenged your belief system or taught her to be gay. I'm sure that living in Lexington, MA your child will eventually make friends with someone who has two fathers or two mothers or just one of either. Her reaction to that reality will have a profound impact on her friend. Please get your head out of the sand and begin to parent your child. Don't teach her hate and fear. We've got more than enough of that in this world already. By allowing hate and fear to dictate your actions you have indeed opened the door to the Kansas "church." Where they see a crack, they will enter. You have let them in. I certainly hope this has been a learning experience for you.
It has been one for me.
please take a look and remember that these are not simple questions with simple answers. The further we travel into science and learn to do things previously thought of as God's powers the deeper the ethical questions run. While it is easy to try to boil it down to one absolute and apply the 10 commandments to that absolute, life just doesn't work like that. God didn't give us this ability to choose without giving us a challenge.
According to my conservative husband, Republicans want less government interference. They feel that the government's interference in our lives costs money and limits freedom? So why are the conservatives taking over the Republican Party and trying to take away our freedoms?
http://www.nightlight.org/snowflakeslanding.asp
Is a Christian organization? So why is the President of the United states backing them in such an obvious way? Read on. Their FAQ states that they do not reject single mothers, but most of their clients do. Read between the lines there. They also state that adopting families do not need to be Christian. I wonder how many of their genetic families would take a Pagan family.
Bottom line, let's stop letting Christian organizations be the only ones to set moral code here. The decision to adopt out embryo should be up to the genetic couple. And while we are on the subject of the adoption of embryo and this Nightlight organization using existing adoption law to place embryo, how does that affect abortion law? One of the arguments in Roe V. Wade was that no existing laws in the US recognized a fetus as being a life. A fetus is not granted any rights or privileges or protections under our law.
Thank you to those men out there who decided to kill their pregnant wives. Now the conservatives have decided to protect the life of the fetus by stating that an act of murder against a pregnant woman could be tried as two counts of murder. One against the mother and the other against the fetus. I'm frankly surprised that Scott Peterson has not argued against this using Roe v. Wade.
When this law was first introduced in various states, my reaction was -- good. An additional punishment against wife abusers. But now, I'm wondering if this is all just another way to erode the strength of Roe v. Wade.
So moving on to further conservative hate propaganda.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/05/antigay_pickets_raise_ire/?page=2
http://www.boston.com/news/necn/New_England/ They strike again in Dracut, Lexington and Bedford.
The Westboro Bible church brought their knuckle-dragers to the Northeast today to protest in front of children. With signs that read America deserved 9/11 and God Hates Gays, they made total fools of themselves in Lexington as parishioners arrived for mass at a local Catholic church.
I am ever so proud at the intelligent thoughtful response of the citizens of Lexington. They stood in a chain opposite the protesters and turned their backs on the protest and its hate-filled signs. Each citizen sported a piece of paper with the name of their church/temple on their backs in a sign of solidarity.
Maybe, just maybe, the mass of citizens standing there with their backs to the protesters blocked the sight of those signs from some child who is just too young to be pulled into this war and exposed to such extreme vitriol.
Sort of makes you think. WWJD? Something tells me that he wouldn't be holding the sign that says "God Hates Gays."
And in the meantime, the father in Lexington that got upset that his child brought home a book about different families denies that he supports this protest by the Kansas "church." Hello? Is your hate and fear of people who are different from you any nicer because you don't use nasty language to express it? The book was a great way to explain to your child that she won't always see families like her own. It in no way challenged your belief system or taught her to be gay. I'm sure that living in Lexington, MA your child will eventually make friends with someone who has two fathers or two mothers or just one of either. Her reaction to that reality will have a profound impact on her friend. Please get your head out of the sand and begin to parent your child. Don't teach her hate and fear. We've got more than enough of that in this world already. By allowing hate and fear to dictate your actions you have indeed opened the door to the Kansas "church." Where they see a crack, they will enter. You have let them in. I certainly hope this has been a learning experience for you.
It has been one for me.
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