The Core Question

On another blog discussion, stem-cell research came up as a "peripheral issue" in the current too-early presidential campaign season. It isn't peripheral to me, but rather one facet of the core issue: Life, the first "unalienable right" named in the Declaration of Independence.

Who supports, values, and cherishes Life?

Who denigrates, devalues, and disdains it?

And who supports them?

And who opposes them?

These questions clarify things for me, lots.

It's interesting that those who denigrate Life, and those who denigrate the freedoms we enjoy in the USA, often run parallel and about one millimeter apart. Not always, but too often to be attributed to "statistical error."

Life. It's a beautiful thing.

Posted on Jun 21, 2007 at 2:10:38 AM EDT.