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Bush's supreme bullsh*t on stem cell research has got to stop. Bush's policies insist on a lifetime of misery or death for the sake of religious and moral zealots clinging to control.
I found some very targeted words from JFK to inspire us to break away from Bush and his enablers' deliberate and deadly nonsense in obstructing embryonic stem cell research.
Let's go back to a time when leadership and vision still meant something.
In his 1961 inaugural speech, Kennedy defined the real struggles for his generation as being against tyranny, disease, poverty and war.
And to the issue of disease and stem cell research it would help us to keep in mind that in JFK's words
"Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake."
On the cutting-edge science of Stem Cell Research itself
"We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier. I believe the times demand new invention, innovation, imagination, decision."
On the suffering and pre-mature deaths of millions of americans who's lives could be saved if embryonic stem cell research were federally funded to encourage innovation and cures.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-- John F. Kennedy
And finally on the separation of Church and State:
When Presidents place their hand on the Bible to swear their oath of office, they are swearing to support the constitutional separation of Church and State,.......if a President breaks his oath, he is not only committing a crime against the constitution for which congress can impeach him - but he is committing a sin against God.