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Meanwhile, Professor Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Chair in practical ethics at the University of Oxford, blasted the Catholic church saying the excommunication views amount "to religious persecution of scientists which has no place in modern liberal societies."

Professor Cesare Galli of the Laboratory of Reproductive Technologies in Cremona, the first scientist to clone a horse, said last week that the position makes the Catholic church like the Talbian in Afghanistan.

These guys are in hysterics. Vigorous criticism does not equal persecution. Internal church disciplinary action does not equal persecution. They obviously never played "one of these things is not like the other" in childhood.

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These guys are in hysterics. Vigorous criticism does not equal persecution. Internal church disciplinary action does not equal persecution. They obviously never played "one of these things is not like the other" in childhood.

I agree. The scientists insist on whining, instead of facing up to the reality that they have made immoral choices.