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Bill Frist Breaks With Bush on Stem Cell Research

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist endorsed government-funded research on human embryonic stem cells Friday, breaking with President Bush and the religious conservatives he's been courting for a 2008 presidential bid. He drew praise from former first lady Nancy Reagan.
"It isn't just a matter of faith, it's a matter of science," Frist, a heart-lung transplant surgeon, said in a Senate speech. "The president's policy should be modified."

Pretty much, ever since I pressed the button in 2000 for our current president and many of his republican associates, I have walked with a certain guilt and shame. As our political leaders began to wage a very immoral "moral" crusade, it has become increasingly evident that the republican party has little to do with justice, morality, christianity, God, or moving our country toward a safer future with our families.

One of those candidates is the current Senate majority leader, Dr. Bill Frist. In an amazing break from the republican guard, Dr. Frist openly went against the president and the conservative movement this week, taking a stand for the advancement of stem cell research. For this I applaud Dr. Frist.

I am not deeply intelligent about all of these issues. We live in a society where the media is nothing more than a bunch of people like you and I, who really don't have all the details, making judgements, conjecture and spouting rhetoric. I'm not attempting to do that. But what I do hope is that Dr. Frist's move is one that goes to slash the ridiculous idea that everything our president does is right.

Jesus is not a republican. And, just because Bush backs something doesn't mean it's right. Christianity and republicanism do not go hand in hand.

All politicians on both sides of the aisle have some corruption. Would I ever vote for Frist again? No. As a matter of fact, I cannot imagine a time that I would ever vote for a repulican in my life after the betrayal they have bestowed upon the moral side of our country, and the ravaging savagery they are wielding upon our children's future. Damn them all to a fiery hell.

In an earlier post, I wrote about our willingness to lease out our thinking to other people so that we don't have to think about those things (preachers/politicians).

Hopefully, small waves like the one Frist has made this weekend will slap people who do this in the face and at least make us think a bit about how ridiculous it is to equate a political party with morality.

No one in either party is necessarily right. But, they are human beings just like us. No one has a corner on morality.