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Idea for Stem Cell Controversy |
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Don't give the idiot legislature |
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06/02/2005 |
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Your initial post said, "when stem cell research finally breaks through and cures cancer or Parkinson's, all those who oppose it cannot benefit."
What you don't seem to understand is that those who oppose it wouldn't WANT to benefit from it because they wouldn't use ANY of the cures based on moral grounds. And if you're a journalist covering this story, you need to understand their viewpoint.
You don't understand the separation of church and state either. That phrase doesn??t exist in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. It's from a private letter Thomas Jefferson wrote on January 1, 1802??11 years after the First Amendment was ratified.
But you might want to brush up on the First Amendment if you're a journalist. It says the state can't make a law prohibiting the free exercise of religion or favoring one particular religion. It says nothing about religion's influence on society. It guarantees freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion.
FIRST AMENDMENT
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
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any oversight of important public projects? Open a history book. You don't sound like an inquiring journalist. You sound like Mussolini. And for someone who calls himself a journalist that's in-excusable.
Look - before you talk about morals you have to talk about common sense. The story of the California stem cell institute is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of this state. And people in our profession are largely asleep at the wheel.
Prop 71 was sold by pushing all the right emotional buttons. It is still being sold that way - and the most of the press has taken the bait along with everyone else.
Once again - people who have worked closely on the intiative are plainly admitting it was oversold. I've spoken with some of them.
This is not an institute that is merely turning it's back on lawmakers - it has hired a $10,000 a month PR flack to fight the legislature. Any journalist with any kind of gut would have to admit that something stinks here. Bad.
Here's one who does:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/05/15/EDG5TCOLKN1.DTL
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