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...around. Much of it has been strikingly similar. The anti-miscegenation laws that were enacted in much of the South were rooted in interpretations of the Bible. Interracial intimacy was seen as unnatural. Blacks were put forth as filthy sub-humans who wanted to muddy white bloodlines and thus destroy the goodness of the white race. Race mixing was akin to bestiality. Sound familiar? "Defenders" of marriage, from Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum to Justice Antonin Scalia to Pope Benedict, have tossed out arguments just like these in their quest to keep same-sex couples from the altar...
...embryos.But although some have called the new findings key discoveries that would satisfy both scientists and religious activists, many are still skeptical.These two methods, both published in Nature magazine, reflect the burgeoning interest of U.S. researchers in developing alternative ways to create embryonic stem cell lines without having to destroy an embryo. Current federal restrictions limit embryonic stem cell research to cell lines created before August 2001, mainly because opponents of such research claim that traditional methods of creating cell lines require the destruction of embryos. Such a process, they say, is equivalent to murder.The method used by scientists...
...difficulties in Iraq were entirely predictable and show that military forces are ill suited for social work or political projects. An army is a blunt instrument. Its function is to destroy an enemy. Unless the U.S. intends to do just that, we should keep our soldiers at home. Michael Smith Cynthiana, Kentucky...
...Make no mistake about it: Hurricane Katrina didn't destroy New Orleans; the breaches in the levees did. Maybe it's time the U.S. government spent its money on what is broken in our country rather than trying to fix things in other nations. Nancy H. Babendir Skokie, Illinois...
...three decades, John Howard has been on a slow march to end centralized wage-fixing and to break the power of trade unions. In opposition and in government, the Prime Minister has not wavered in his determination to destroy one of the nation's most enduring principles: that wage levels should be set by an independent arbitrator. Talk about a stayer! Australia's industrial relations system has been gradually changing since Labor introduced enterprise bargaining in the early '90s. Now, having taken control of the Senate in July, Howard has a chance to transform it. This should be a good...