We have the blind reading the blind.
America's founders understood the dangers of religious factions well enough for them to insist that the church and state be kept apart. In recent times the line between the two has become increasingly blurred, often with terrible results (abstinence education programmes, the federal government's refusal to fund groups that provide family planning advice, bans on stem-cell research, the political opera surrounding Terry Schiavo and so on, almost ad nauseam). Depending on their choice of candidate -particularly within the GOP- the upcoming elections will offer the country a chance to restore some of the system's lost balance.
What is at stake is not really faith so much as the separation of the executive's functions from its own exclusive religious beliefs, the relationship between the president's faith and matters of public policy. America has always been a devoutly religious nation, only recently has it started to become blindly so.........
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NETHERLANDS, January 16, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dutch paediatric neurosurgeon Rob de Jong, in collaboration with peers from several other countries, has expressed his concern at the practice in the Netherlands of carrying out euthanasia on some babies born with spina bifida in an article in the medical journal Child's Nervous System.
According to a report by Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the lives of a small number of babies are terminated each year by doctors who, together with the parents, believe the infant is experiencing unbearable suffering and will continue to suffer in this way in the future...........
Paediatric Neurosurgeons Criticize Dutch Practice of Euthanasia on Babies With Spina Bifida
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