Today I saw the results of the referendum on the aided insemination. I am sickened beyond words.
Let me explain.
International appeal in support of Italian referendum on stem cell research Italy is one of the most backward countries of Europe about the scientific search. And why is that? Because it's the center of the papacy! The State is so busy financing private catholic schools, that it denies funds to the public schools and the scientific search, and, worst of all, keeps laws against progress and tolerance.
A couple of years ago the politicians were discussing the possibility of modify the laws that prevent homosexuals from getting married, and the Pope himself went to the parliament to make a speech about "the importance of defending the integrity of the family" and bullshit like that. The result? No modification. The story repeats itself now.
One of our laws (law n.40) prevents scientists and doctors to use stem cells for research against deadly diseases and for helping married couples with problems of infertility and/or hereditary diseases have children. That is because the stem cells are considered human beings, and thus using them is considered murder.
Now, how can microscopical aggregates of premature cells be considered human beings? If they were really human beings, then spermatozoon should also be considered human beings, and any man who masturbates should be condemned for mass murder! Not to mention that the stem cells in question, the ones that the scientists and the doctors need to use, would not be taken for pregnant women who want to have the baby, so it's not like any baby would be prevented from being born. No, those cells would either be taken from the placenta of women who just gave birth or directly made in labs. Thanks to those cells, many innocent lives would be saved, and many couples would be able to finally have children. YET, the Church keeps on opposing this completely useful and just project, because it says that using stem cells (that, in nature, die almost always before maturating) is THE EVIL! They don't care that fully grown human beings suffer and die because of hereditary diseases, nor that they can't have children because they have the misfortune of being sterile; they only care for opposing any kind of progress. I hate their hypocrisy.
Anyway, yesterday and the day before yesterday there was a referendum about this matter, and the law preventing the use of stem cells would have been modified if 50% plus 1 of the people allowed to vote had voted YES. The Church declared war to this: many important catholics politics did appeals in TV, telling people not to go voting, and outside many churches posters were hung, with the writing "Life Can't Be Put On Votes. Don't Go Voting". The result? Only 25,9% voted YES, thus the law won't be modified and many people will keep on suffering and dying.
CONGRATULATION CHURCH, YOU WON AGAIN! Just like when You say not to use condoms, and every years thousands of people die of AIDS. Surely God is very pleased with You, You can be proud of Yourself!