Bioethics issues are particularly troublesome in Florida. Florida was the home to the fierce national debate over the life and death of Terri Schiavo and her husband ultimate won the right from a local Florida court to kill her via euthanasia by painfully starving and dehydrating her to death over a 13 day period.
Florida is also the home to numerous biotech firms as companies such as the California-based Scripps, Burnham and Torrey Pines institutes destroy the lives of days-old unborn children for their cells for questionable scientific research.
Florida Pro-Life Group Adds Bioethics Focus to Opposition to Abortion
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We're all familiar with Bush's acts of fealty to the social-conservative base of his party—the nomination of pro-life judges, the Terri Schiavo intervention, the attempt to ban same-sex marriage, the veto of funding for stem-cell research. What is far less widely understood is what these numerous gestures of loyalty to causes near and dear to the Catholic Church tell us about how ecumenical the religious right has become.
But has the social-conservative movement become broad enough to accept a Mormon as its leader? That remains an open question. Latter-day Saints have toiled side by side with Catholics and evangelicals on various issues during the last two decades. But anti-Mormon prejudice remains widespread in both communities. Even Neuhaus, Mr. Ecumenical himself, has effectively excommunicated Mormons from the religious right by pronouncing that they are not Christians. And James Dobson of Focus on the Family no doubt spoke for many older evangelicals when he recently denied that "conservative Christians in large numbers will vote for a Mormon."
A Bigger Tent...Why religious conservatives are ready for a Mormon president.
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