Admit it or not, the politically dominant philosophy, whether one calls it Democrat, Liberal, socialist, Marxist, it virulently opposed to religion, and, by extension, the morality thereof.
1. "Religious case at Supreme Court could affect Obamacare and much more
...At issue in Tuesday's oral argument before the court is a regulation under the Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide workers a health plan that covers the full range of contraceptives, including morning-after pills and intrauterine devices, or IUDs."
Religious case at Supreme Court could affect Obamacare and much more - Los Angeles Times
But this is only the tip of the iceberg.
The American Left has always taken it's cues from the European Left.....
...and there, one can see both the how far the Left wishes to go against religious precepts, and, possibly.....
...an incipient push-back.
2. In 1984, Holland legalized euthanasia, the right of Dutch doctors to kill their elderly patients.
Would they do so based on their whim?
a. The Dutch survey, reviewed in the Journal of Medical Ethics, looked at the figures for 1995 and found that as well as 3,600 authorized cases there were 900 others in which doctors had acted without explicit consent . they thought they were acting in the patient's best interests.
Involuntary Euthanasia is Out of Control in Holland
b. Euthanasia, as Dr. Peggy Norris observed with some asperity, "cannot be controlled." If this is so, just what is irrational about religious objections to social policies that when they reach the bottom of the slippery slope are bound to embody something Dutch, degraded, and disgusting?
"How many scientific atheists, I wonder, propose to spend their old age in Holland?"
David Berlinski
3. What makes men good? Certainly they are not good by nature. In fact, frequently, the contrary. Does science have an opinion?
"Perhaps," Atheist Richard Dawkins speculates, "I... am a Pollyanna to believe that people would remain good when unobserved and unpoliced by God."
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091226094728AAv8UVO
Perhaps there are some men who are simply good by their nature.....
4. "Some Dutch pharmacists refusing to supply euthanasia drugs
Although euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands, some Dutch pharmacists are refusing to supply the lethal drugs needed to carry it out. ....this does not necessarily happen because of religious objections to euthanasia. Some pharmacists do not know the doctors who approved the euthanasia; others do not agree with euthanasia for conditions like dementia or depression.
A pharmacy is not a shop where deadly drugs are just handed over, a spokesperson for the pharmacists association said."
BioEdge: Some Dutch pharmacists refusing to supply euthanasia drugs
Now, if the pharmacies of Holland were under the purview of the current United States President and his henchmen at the Department of Justice.....
...what, one wonders, would they be ordered to do?
1. "Religious case at Supreme Court could affect Obamacare and much more
...At issue in Tuesday's oral argument before the court is a regulation under the Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide workers a health plan that covers the full range of contraceptives, including morning-after pills and intrauterine devices, or IUDs."
Religious case at Supreme Court could affect Obamacare and much more - Los Angeles Times
But this is only the tip of the iceberg.
The American Left has always taken it's cues from the European Left.....
...and there, one can see both the how far the Left wishes to go against religious precepts, and, possibly.....
...an incipient push-back.
2. In 1984, Holland legalized euthanasia, the right of Dutch doctors to kill their elderly patients.
Would they do so based on their whim?
a. The Dutch survey, reviewed in the Journal of Medical Ethics, looked at the figures for 1995 and found that as well as 3,600 authorized cases there were 900 others in which doctors had acted without explicit consent . they thought they were acting in the patient's best interests.
Involuntary Euthanasia is Out of Control in Holland
b. Euthanasia, as Dr. Peggy Norris observed with some asperity, "cannot be controlled." If this is so, just what is irrational about religious objections to social policies that when they reach the bottom of the slippery slope are bound to embody something Dutch, degraded, and disgusting?
"How many scientific atheists, I wonder, propose to spend their old age in Holland?"
David Berlinski
3. What makes men good? Certainly they are not good by nature. In fact, frequently, the contrary. Does science have an opinion?
"Perhaps," Atheist Richard Dawkins speculates, "I... am a Pollyanna to believe that people would remain good when unobserved and unpoliced by God."
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091226094728AAv8UVO
Perhaps there are some men who are simply good by their nature.....
4. "Some Dutch pharmacists refusing to supply euthanasia drugs
Although euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands, some Dutch pharmacists are refusing to supply the lethal drugs needed to carry it out. ....this does not necessarily happen because of religious objections to euthanasia. Some pharmacists do not know the doctors who approved the euthanasia; others do not agree with euthanasia for conditions like dementia or depression.
A pharmacy is not a shop where deadly drugs are just handed over, a spokesperson for the pharmacists association said."
BioEdge: Some Dutch pharmacists refusing to supply euthanasia drugs
Now, if the pharmacies of Holland were under the purview of the current United States President and his henchmen at the Department of Justice.....
...what, one wonders, would they be ordered to do?