Hope and change, but not if you're unborn

The week of his inauguration, Herr Obama untethered federal funds from going to overseas abortion providers, something George Bush had blocked.

Then the President (current) dismantled the wall that George Bush had erected that permitted doctors who received federal funding from not performing abortions for reasons of conscience. If you get the money, then you'll do the dirty work and figure out how to salve your soul some other way.

Today El Presidente continued the onslaught against unborn Americans continued with demonic passion. In an "effort to separate science and politics," your tax dollars and mine will now go to dissecting human embryos for the purpose of medical advancement (clinically termed "embryonic stem cell research").

Oh, but wait! It gets better. Our elected leader drew a moral line in the sand. No human cloning! From Fox News (here):

"We cannot ever tolerate misuse or abuse. And we will ensure that our government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction," Obama said. "It is dangerous, profoundly wrong, and has no place in our society, or any society."

Pray, tell, how did the man say that with a straight face? It's okay to dismantle the most helpless and innocent human beings in the hope (hope, mind you, no guarantees) that some day a cure might be found for one of the many diseases that plague humanity, but it is morally reprehensible to wicker with "conception," to create a fashion baby?

Don't get me wrong, both situations blemish humanity. Foul. Morally reprehensible. I hope I'm not equivocating too much. Ethically bankrupt. I'm dumbfounded, though that President Barak Obama finds human cloning troublesome but has such serene certainty about experiments that Mary Shelley never imagined.

It seems our President has found his pay grade. He crushes religious argument by appealing to science. He will not permit doctors protecting themselves on a theological basis. He deceives by asserting that he has taken the politics out of the science.

But he has not. Au contraire! He has plunged the political knife deep into the heart of science. Could someone elighten this dim bulb as to when science got a free pass on issues moral? Even the President can't live consistently with what he says and what he does for by feigning outrage over cloning, he injects politics and morality into that issue. That's just goofy.

And what's worse, by giving government's rubberstamp to embryonic stem cell research, he's unleashed the furies and has made us all culpable.

The unborn have no voice but ours, and it would seem our voice is no longer welcome in the White House. But our pockets will be picked to pay for this putrescence.

All of this on a day when the media headlines the decline of religion generally and Christianity specifically in America (here and here). There's a shock.

Abraham stayed God's fury until his nephew and family had beat feet out of town, but the Lord's holy and just wrath ultimately incinerated two towns in southern Canaan, two towns that had rotted themselves in self-indulgence and gravitas.

What is holding God's hand back today? How long before his justice buries our nation? What will become us?