I personally personal recreational usage in the safety of your own home should be completely legal, that goes for just about anything in my opinion. I dont think the government has the right to tell anyone how to live there own personal existance!

Its all a total load of BS, a mans character should be his badge of honor, not some bs title. Its junk for these domestic terriorists to hide behind a book

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/obama_catholics


SC priest: No communion for Obama supporters

FOX News COLUMBIA, S.C. – A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

"Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president," Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.

"Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ's Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation."

During the 2008 presidential campaign, many bishops spoke out on abortion more boldly than four years earlier, telling Catholic politicians and voters that the issue should be the most important consideration in setting policy and deciding which candidate to back. A few church leaders said parishioners risked their immortal soul by voting for candidates who support abortion rights.

But bishops differ on whether Catholic lawmakers — and voters — should refrain from receiving Communion if they diverge from church teaching on abortion. Each bishop sets policy in his own diocese. In their annual fall meeting, the nation's Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights.

According to national exit polls, 54 percent of Catholics chose Obama, who is Protestant. In South Carolina, which McCain carried, voters in Greenville County — traditionally seen as among the state's most conservative areas — went 61 percent for the Republican, and 37 percent for Obama.

"It was not an attempt to make a partisan point," Newman said in a telephone interview Thursday. "In fact, in this election, for the sake of argument, if the Republican candidate had been pro-abortion, and the Democratic candidate had been pro-life, everything that I wrote would have been exactly the same."

Conservative Catholics criticized Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry in 2004 for supporting abortion rights, with a few Catholic bishops saying Kerry should refrain from receiving Holy Communion because his views were contrary to church teachings.

Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokeswoman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said she had not heard of other churches taking this position in reaction to Obama's win. A Boston-based group that supports Catholic Democrats questioned the move, saying it was too extreme.

"Father Newman is off base," said Steve Krueger, national director of Catholic Democrats. "He is acting beyond the authority of a parish priest to say what he did. ... Unfortunately, he is doing so in a manner that will be of great cost to those parishioners who did vote for Sens. Obama and Biden. There will be a spiritual cost to them for his words."

A man who has attended St. Mary's for 18 years said he welcomed Newman's message and anticipated it would inspire further discussion at the church.

"I don't understand anyone who would call themselves a Christian, let alone a Catholic, and could vote for someone who's a pro-abortion candidate," said Ted Kelly, 64, who volunteers his time as lector for the church. "You're talking about the murder of innocent beings."

I personally think the Catholic church needs to "protect" the living children from there own priests first!


"When Jesus said suffer all the little children, come unto me, thats not what he was talkin about father!"---GC

"Some say life begins at conception, I say life began about a Billion years ago, and its a contenious process"---GC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrXvDXVhqfU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Djohakx_FE&feature=related

Just another Biggot who is so scared when he looks in the mirror. He has to demonize exactly what he sees in himself.



Nothing but an Ignorant FOOL

Theres only 1 thing and 1 thing only that outrages me, and thats someone who feels that it is there duty to force there own opinion/belief system on others. This world is big enough for all different views and we NEED TO RESPECT THAT PERIOD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycjxASJff1k&feature=related

That all there is to say



ANY TYPE OF REPPRESSION BREEDS RETALIATION!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Vll-t0H6A

Is it something only a woman can do? Embryos can be grown in a labratory. What defines a man or a woman? Egg vs sperm production? X vs Y? i personally think it goes deeper tha that. (Moms are some of the most un appreciated HEROs in this country)

I personally think its amazing, I think its people who make society question everything theyve "Traditionalized", and teach people 2 open there minds,now that in my mind are what true HEROs are made of.

Bone marrow 'cures HIV patient'

About one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have a resistance to HIV
Doctors in Germany say a patient appears to have been cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic resistance to the virus.

The researchers in Berlin said the man, who suffered from leukaemia and HIV, had shown no sign of either disease since the transplant two years ago.

But they stressed it was an unusual case which needed further investigation.

Experts said the result may boost interest in gene therapy for HIV.

Berlin's Charite clinic said the 42-year-old patient was an American living in Berlin, but the man has not been identified.

Genetic mutation

He had been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, that causes Aids, for more than a decade and also had leukaemia.

The clinic said since the transplant was carried out 20 months ago, tests on the patient's bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues have all been clear.



To promise to millions of people infected with HIV that there is hope of a cure would not be right



Professor Rodolf Tauber, Berlin's Charite clinic



In a statement, Professor Rodolf Tauber from the Charite clinic said: "This is an interesting case for research.

"But to promise to millions of people infected with HIV that there is hope of a cure would not be right."

Roughly one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have an inherited genetic mutation, which prevents HIV from attaching itself to cells.

Two million people die of Aids every year and HIV is estimated to have infected 33 million people worldwide.

Option 'for a few'

Professor Andrew Sewell, from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Immunology at the University of Cardiff said in theory a bone marrow transplant such as this one "should work" and it was surprising that no one had tried it before.

Most people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa and this is hugely expensive

Professor Andrew Sewell, University of Cardiff

"The problem is most people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa and this is hugely expensive, you have to find a matched donor, and it's a pretty severe and painful operation.

"So it's going to be an option for very few people."

He added that gene therapy to knock out the mutation of the key CCR5 receptor was a possibility for future treatment.

Professor Philip Goulder, an immunologist at the University of Oxford said: "It's a really interesting case which looks at a treatment which really hasn't been thought about before.

"But without having that much information about the specific case you would want to be very cautious about getting too excited and you wouldn't be able to replicate that treatment for a lot of people with HIV."

Paul Ward, deputy chief executive at the Terrence Higgins Trust said: "This case gives us something to explore in future studies but it's certainly not a quick fix as gene therapy is complex and expensive.

"With no cure in sight, prevention should be our number one priority."

What a major breakthrough in the fight for a cure from this horrible disease that affects so many lives. I lost a dear friend to this horrible illness, so this really hits home.


PLEASE SUPPORT STEM CELL RESEARCH

I dont aggree with Mike Hukabee at all, but his gracious and understandable attitude was right on, i commend him for it

Repression breeds retaliation, Its time we let freedom ring

But the news isnt in the free speech biz, there in the delivery biz, its there job to deliver the news in a fair and just manner. What can go wrong if they we to show the other side of the story?

Im proud to be an open minded free thinking human being who knows that love is the answer

Lets talk about how were all the same!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgps85scy1g&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY


This puts into lamens terms, Why Americans love war!

Rush is a joke, his opinion means nothing, besides we all know his judgement is clouded by drug use

Name calling? What are we, in the 2nd Grade? Come on people!! I personally think as far as the NEWS is concerned, the FAIRNESS DOCTRINE SHOULD BE IN PLACE. The "News" isnt in the Free Speech buisness, there in the delivery buisness, and this is a 3 deminsional world we live in with more than 1 side of any story and it is there JOB TO DELIVER EVERY SIDE of that story.

Do u think the news should be force to discuss both sides of the story?

Oh now, we dont know what hes gonna due, hes not even in office yet, I personall think his progressive thinking is what this country needs right now, it will get us all out of this sest pool we call conservative politics

Ill vote for Ann Coultier b4 i vote for that woman Excuse me while i go Now