But having said that, I think the stem research debate as been distorted by some of its proponents. Indeed, there are Americans who oppose embryonic stem cell research on religious grounds, but that fails to tell the entire side of the story.

But having said that, I think the stem research debate as been distorted by some of its proponents. Indeed, there are Americans who oppose embryonic stem cell research on religious grounds, but that fails to tell the entire side of the story. The bill that president Bush vetoed last summer as for federally funded embryonic stem cell research.

But having said that, I think the stem research debate as been distorted by some of its proponents. Indeed, there are Americans who oppose embryonic stem cell research on religious grounds, but that fails to tell the entire side of the story. The bill that president Bush vetoed last summer as for federally funded embryonic stem cell research. It had nothing to do with privately funded embryonic stem cell research.

But having said that, I think the stem research debate as been distorted by some of its proponents. Indeed, there are Americans who oppose embryonic stem cell research on religious grounds, but that fails to tell the entire side of the story. The bill that president Bush vetoed last summer as for federally funded embryonic stem cell research. It had nothing to do with privately funded embryonic stem cell research. So it’s disingenuous for us to argue about stem cell research as if it were simply a ban on all embryonic stem cell research. It is not.

But having said that, I think the stem research debate as been distorted by some of its proponents. Indeed, there are Americans who oppose embryonic stem cell research on religious grounds, but that fails to tell the entire side of the story. The bill that president Bush vetoed last summer as for federally funded embryonic stem cell research. It had nothing to do with privately funded embryonic stem cell research. So it’s disingenuous for us to argue about stem cell research as if it were simply a ban on all embryonic stem cell research. It is not.

I think it is unfair to relegate anyone who opposes embryonic stem cell research to the “extremist” wing of the Republican Party. Many libertarians and conservatives oppose federally-funded embryonic stem cell research not because they object to this research in general, but because they don’t believe this research should be paid for the federal taxpayer dollars and/or they don’t believe federally-funded embryonic stem cell research is constitutional.

But having said that, I think the stem research debate as been distorted by some of its proponents. Indeed, there are Americans who oppose embryonic stem cell research on religious grounds, but that fails to tell the entire side of the story. The bill that president Bush vetoed last summer as for federally funded embryonic stem cell research. It had nothing to do with privately funded embryonic stem cell research. So it’s disingenuous for us to argue about stem cell research as if it were simply a ban on all embryonic stem cell research. It is not.

I think it is unfair to relegate anyone who opposes embryonic stem cell research to the “extremist” wing of the Republican Party. Many libertarians and conservatives oppose federally-funded embryonic stem cell research not because they object to this research in general, but because they don’t believe this research should be paid for the federal taxpayer dollars and/or they don’t believe federally-funded embryonic stem cell research is constitutional.

Some of you might disagree with this argument every bit as much as you do with the argument that opposes embryonic stem cell research for religious reasons. That is certainly your right. I just think we ought not to pretend that all opponents to embryonic stem cell research are right-wing extremists.

Many people regard embryonic stem cell research the same way they regard abortion. They’re pro-choice in that they feel it should be legal and restrictions on it should be kept to a bare minimum, yet they also feel that government should not be funding it.

As I said before, I recognize that there are Americans who oppose embryonic stem cell research on religious grounds and would prefer to ban it outright (Brownback might very well be among them). However, it would be a mistake to believe that this is position of all opponents of embryonic stem cell research.

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Wherever the GOP’s “heart� is, Brownback will run as the truest of true social conservatives: “I am a conservative and I’m proud to be a conservative.� Sure, if conservative is defined as extremism on abortion, stem-cell research, and other wedge issues. That is, if it’s defined by the religious right.

OK, so I’ve got somewhat a beef to pick with the stem-cell research comment in this post and many previous posts.

“THIS MAKES ME SICK.�

Haha…Wordpress= “HAL”?
“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do…”

Hehehe Joe!

I suspect this is what you get for letting MvdG handle the system!

Still, kind of strange. Almost all forum or comment thread programs prevent formatting from ‘spilling’ out of comments by simply adding /a (as a tag) after each post…

Good job, Michael! Have a nice day.

Damn, got me!

Works with links too: Type in the text that you want to appear in the post (like the title of the article, or “this article” or “LINK here”) and highlight it. Then click the link button and a popup window will allow you to type or paste in the URL.

The good part about doing it this way is that you can’t forget to close the tags because it’s all done for you

Anyway, I think I fixed the problems you were having. This didn’t take me too much time but I’m also studying, so I will be off now. If more problems, just e-mail me or Joe or leave a comment in this thread.