I . . . I don't even . . . I can't . . .

[interactiveleaf]

Toledo Catholic Bishop Leonard Blair has banned parishes and parochial schools from raising funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, citing concerns that the global anti-cancer giant may someday fund embryonic stem-cell research.

Read that sentence again. Read it five or six times.

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[sophiaserpentia]

Their doctrine is basically that dying and/or recovering from disease is determined by God's will, and so medicine is effectively humanity playing God. I guess they consider themselves 'moderate' in not objecting to scientific medicine altogether.

[interactiveleaf]

They're forbidding people to donate to a charity because there is a chance that, one day in the future, that charity might do something they don't like!

I don't even

[interactiveleaf]

Well, also, it's not like breast cancer hurts real people. Just women, mostly.

[filkerdave]

Wha....

You really CAN'T make this stuff up

[nemo_wistar]

Does the entire religious community and GOP have some massive form of OCD? Don't worry about what IS, but only what COULD BE ... and then never shut the hell up about it?

[jabber]

American Universities educate people who go on to do such research, and worse, who go on to perform abortions!!! This church should pull up stakes and move to the Middle East.

[draggonlaady]

*snerk*

[bramblekite]

fuckin' thing. I can't even be coherent about this.