Obama advancing his anti-religious agenda

As most have heard, President Barack Obama issued an executive order that authorizes expanded federal funding for research using stem cells produced by destroying human embryos.

His announcement was typical. He looks straight at the American people with his calm and deliberate demeanor and acts as if he moderate while he is advancing his radical policies.

Obama’s order overturned Bush’s policy which balanced an unrealistic promise of stem cell research with morality and ethics.

Obama’s plan not only allows funding for new cell lines by destroying embryos, it actually incentivizes the process.

This has nothing to do with science as the science shows the same results can be achieved using pleuripotent stem cells from other sources.

This is purely politics and Obama paying back his radical left wing members who always tried to paint Bush’s policy as a purely religious and anti-science.

Bush's policy was always one of moderation and certainly not as radical as some on the religious right would have liked. His policy did not ban new embryo-destructive research. It only stopped taxpayer money paying for it. Private industry was free to continue doing this research if they so desired.

But this wasn’t good enough for the left. Obama's policy is in no way moderate. His policy will promote a whole new industry of embryo creation and destruction, including the creation of human embryos by cloning for research in which they are destroyed all while using taxpayer dollars. It forces all taxpayers to participate in this morally inappropriate practice purely for political gain.

Obama’s comments about taking politics out of it are blatantly misleading. He intentionally reversed a very moderate compromise made by Bush only for political gain. He completely ignores the recent scientific breakthroughs that make possible the production of cells that are biologically equivalent to embryonic stem cells without the need to create or kill human embryos and Obama revoked not only the Bush restrictions on embryo destructive research funding, but also the 2007 executive order that encourages the National Institutes of Health to explore non-embryo-destructive sources of stem cells.

The bigger problem with Obama is that he evidently doesn’t realize or doesn’t care that this issue isn’t really about science. The question of whether to destroy human embryos is a moral question. Using research is just a way to overcome the moral implications and questions.

When life begins and how we as a society treat human beings at the beginning of life is a much more difficult discussion and one that Obama clearly doesn’t understand and refuses to acknowledge or admit.

Using taxpayer money to fund this morally controversial issue continues to place the United States on a downward decline in our ethics.