Pres Bush comments regarding the death of Terri Schiavo — Page 2

I just find it so frustrating when people rally around a cause that won't actually do anyone any good...like saving someone who doesn't have the ability to ever know she is alive... when the funding, lobbying, and publicity could be poured into something that has a chance of making a difference in someone's life. Things like AIDS research or organ donation. But unless something sells newspapers or will win votes, it is neither a front page story nor will you see George cutting short his vacation to lend his support.

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wow, sorry for your loss iflit......and you are so right about organ donations.

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Iflit, the problem there is the people with this money found a rallying cause. They are against AIDS research because, clearly, anyone who gets AIDS (druggies, fags) deserves it. Nevermind the fastest-growing segment of the AIDS population is black women (wait, they deserve it, too, because they're female and black), it's a disease created by God to wipe this evil spreading off the face of the earth (our blessed dying Pope called gays an evil spreading over the earth in his book a few years ago).
I also know, having come from a fundamentalist Christian home, that there's a limit to what people will allow in science and religion. Strangely enough, a LOT of people have severe issues with organ donations and the like. They don't believe it's right. Of course, when science is "suddenly" on their side, they'll do everything they can to say it's the Christian thing to do (i.e. extending the life indefinitely of a woman who is no longer present in her own body).

As our founding fathers (many of whom were not traditional Christians, despite the fundamentalist attempts to prove otherwise...read their writings, they were Universalists by a vast majority) so desperately tried to create in our Constitution, there is a strong need to prevent ANY religion from having such a powerful foothold in the application of government policy as the radical right currently has.

As some of you know, I work in the field of organ transplantation. (The 16 year old, I mentioned earlier, who died waiting for new lungs was a family friend and was totally unrelated to my work.) One phenomenon that I have observed repeatedly is that the very same people who "don't believe in organ donation" are often are the most righteously indignant when the need for a new heart, liver, kidney or lung suddenly becomes personal...and one isn't available. I always find it incredible when people are unwilling to donate organs but EXPECT one to be there for them when they need it.

I guess it's common to the human experience that most of our beliefs are subject to alteration based on person experience, but it still makes me crazy.

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