". . . what do you think of the argument that if we should not be allowed to destroy embryos to research for cures, why should couple be able to make them through in-vitro when they cannot conceive?"
I find it all very troubling and morally wrong, but I am increasingly convinced that government cannot fill an ethical/moral vacuum.
In the case of today's veto, the President refused to let government (and our tax dollars) support something that he, and many Americans, find reprehensible.
However, in the personal lives of individual Americans, I don't know that government can dictate moral choices (sexuality, promiscuity, lifestyle, perhaps even abortion)or enforce laws designed to control them.
Rather, society and its pressures have always been the strongest and most effective force in pressuring its members to live ethically and morally.
That, of course, is where we have failed. We have allowed the anything-goes, me-first, personal happiness crowd to dominate our culture.
The question is when and whether good, God-fearing Americans can reclaim the attention and admiration of a society going bad.
I am just making sure I read you correctly...when you say:
"I find it all very troubling and morally wrong, but I am increasingly convinced that government cannot fill an ethical/moral vacuum." Do you mean even the creation of life through artificial means in morally wrong?