Last week in my medicine class my professor, Dr. John Patrick, spoke about abortion and in his bluntly British way pointed out to us that the concept of genetic screening came straight out of the Nazi handbook. This link was easy enough for any of us to see, but the truth had simply never occurred to me, for I had never bothered to think about it.
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If you want to do something meaningful for a baby stop the genital mutilation of baby boys and girls by the stupid and the people who call themselves religious.
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The job of the legislature is largely just to protect the well-being and property rights of citizens. They do other stuff too, obviously, but their primary purpose is just to formalize and maintain the status quo.
As far as drawing legislative inspiration directly from moral & religious convictions, well a theocracy is all well and good when you get to pick the religion, but pretty damn oppressive otherwise. It's that whole religious freedom thing we're so proud of. It kind of loses its shine if we say "you can believe whatever you want, but legally you're required to follow the practices of X religion."
Let me invert your question:
If it is the job of the Senate to make what is moral legal and what is immoral illegal, what is the purpose of the Church?
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