Theocrats

Evidently, I've got a label. It's "theocrat", given by Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

Schumer, who was born into a Jewish family, chastised people of all faiths who opposed embryonic stem-cell research (ESCR), calling them "theocrats" and saying it is un-American to try and push their views on the issue. The senator added that it was such attitudes that caused the Founding Fathers to leave their plows and take up muskets.

I think Mr. Schumer needs to delve a little deeper into the lives of the Founding Fathers. As John Adams said in 1740:

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Mr. Schumer, as much as he would like, cannot alter facts. It's a fact that no embryonic stem cell research has ever cured anyone. There is right, and wrong, and sucking the life out of a fertilized egg that one day may become the person who solves all the world's problems, is just flat wrong! Thomas Jefferson in 1774:

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Even their activists judges do not have to right to change the laws of nature. Nature is what happens when people act like people, male and female. How about Thomas Paine in 1801:

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

As the embryonic stem cell research moves the Democrats, the saving of millions of lives moves the "theocratic" Republicans.