The question is instead whether whatever is going to be imposed by the force of law is reasonable, just, and good for society and its members.
In response to 'verilyProsaic' , I must agree that the embryonic stem cell debate is about what is reasonable, just and good. In fact, I would say that the issue is really about with is reasonable. You see, the Church and more traditional members of society believes that human life begins at conception. Those who hold that view believe it to be reasonable. Many of us, who have studied modern biology, do not believe that conclusion is reasonable. We believe that it is false. The more biologists look the more the traditional view fails to hold. Twins pose a great problem for me. You see all identical twins start as one egg and one sperm. The combination looks just like the beginning of an individual then after a few days voila we have two or more. When did each twin emerge? The environment in the womb that fertilized eggs live in affects everything about what that person will be. How does that work with the idea that a fertilized egg is a human being? I think a fertilized egg is no more a human being than a pumpkin seed is a pumpkin.
Pumpkin seeds are required to grow pumpkins however and eagle eggs are required to grow eagles so we husband them if we wish to grow the things that emerge from them.
What is important is not whether a proposed law happens to be taught by religion, but whether that proposal is just, right, and good for society and its members.
Verily may be appealing to some simple idea of fairness here but he surely hasn't thought of the political problem for the Church. You bet it's a problem when the Church teaches that a fertilized egg is a human and someone kills the egg. That is murder. So, by the way is abortion murder. Any honest churchman can see that. If killing a fertilized egg is not killing a human, than the Church finds itself blocking research that may lead to great benefit for society and its members. That is exactly what I believe it is doing.
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