Here’s a tribute to ashlover, on whose behalf ash wrote the letter. But first:
"Life begins at conception; life must be treated with dignity and respect," the Catholic Conference of Illinois said in a written statement Tuesday. "Governor Blagojevich betrays his own office, both morally and politically, with the ploy he used this morning."
Tired of seeing same letter writers in the newspaper? Well, it seems to me we have been hearing from the same people in letters to the editor. Almost weekly, Milford Franks Jr., Diane Greenholdt and a few other President Bush bashers submit their letters and, unfortunately, they always seem to get printed. I’m not for censorship, but there must be someone else in Springfield who writes letters to the editor.
Franks’ letters are somewhat interesting, but usually are just the ACLU’s position papers. Greenholdt’s letters and the other President Bush bashers are usually funny in one way since they seem to be based on half-truths, innuendo and plain falsehoods, but tragic in another way since they sound like Sen. Turban Durbin.
So please, you readers of the SJ-R, send the editor a letter.
Upon which she did just that:
Someone near and dear to me has multiple sclerosis. For that reason as well as altruistic ones, the issue of government-funded embryonic stem cell research is of critical import to me.
Neither my loved one nor I is Catholic. While the Catholic Church – a subset of Christianity and a government in and of itself- is certainly free to weigh in on the debate, it should not, cannot, and will not dictate legislation. Nor is its definition of the beginning of life any more significant than mine.
Anyone objecting on moral or religious grounds to the use of these cells as a potential cure for crippling diseases such as multiple sclerosis is free to reject the innovations it produces. Meanwhile, I will continue to speak loudly and frequently in its favor.
On a side note, I would like to consider myself among the illustrious liberal company of fellow writers Diane Greenholdt and Milford Franks, Jr. to whom Marshall Selkirk referred in his letter. Maybe my next contribution to the discourse will constitute a better example of “Bush-bashing.”