I try not to get too political on this blog, but this is just too good to resist. Besides, it lends itself to an interesting exercise of interpreting the words of the powerful.

In vetoing the recent bill on stem-cell research, Bush made the following comments:

America is also a nation founded on the principle that all human life is sacred — and our conscience calls us to pursue the possibilities of science in a manner that respects human dignity and upholds our moral values.

[ . . . ]

Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical — and it is not the only option before us.

Does he not realize what other policies he might have could be interpreted through these words? What of collateral damage? What of the science of our vast cache of weapons? The second statement I’ve quoted is particularly interesting. Those exact words could have been applied to going to war with Iraq. The same words could be used to oppose the death penalty for people who are a “threat” to others.

Anyway, these smaller posts will have to suffice while I’m in a two week intensive at Fuller–not much time to blog at the moment.