Nancy Pelosi's "Amen Moment"
Senator John Edwards was justly ridiculed when he stated in 2004 that people in wheelchairs would be able to walk if John Kerry were elected, because he would alter President Bush's embryonic stem cell funding policy. This bit of outrageous hype was quickly labeled Edwards' "amen moment."
Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has had a shameless amen moment of her own, asserting in the recent House of Representatives debate:"Science is a gift of God to all of us and science has taken us to a place that is biblical in its power to cure," said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, arguing for the bill's passage. "And that is the embryonic stem cell research."
The thing is: ESCR hasn't cured anything. This kind of wild hype is shameful and should be ridiculed far and wide. But the media won't even arch an eyebrow. They analyze every story and statement through the prism of destroying the Bush policy. In such a biased and ignorant milieu, no statement or argument made on behalf of embryonic stem cell research is too wild to be taken seriously.
Labels: Nancy Pelosi. ESCR
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 5:56 PM
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Politics as usual. Beyond that statement, I can't defend Pelosi. I don't support Democrats any more than I can Repubs - hence, libertarians!!!!
ESCR alone I doubt will ever be the magic cure. But, SCNT could definitely be, barring of course the logistic of egg harvesting.
Why is it okay for people on HER side of the issue to invoke God, but not people like myself who are pro-lifers? We're always told it's just our religion and all we are trying to do is force it upon others-as if values that come from a faith aren't true just because they are present in a faith.
If she isn't criticized for injecting God, then those people criticizing others for doing the same are not hypocrites, they are absolute phonies.
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