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Episode 59: Mississippi ‘Personhood’ Amendment, Michigan ‘Anti-Bullying’ Law, Cosmos, Objective Morality
Written by Christopher Thielen in Broadcasts at November 9, 2011
Tom, Robin, Chris, and Sam are with us for this installment of An American Atheist, discussing the recent attempt in Mississippi at defining ‘personhood’ as beginning with the fetus, the Michigan ‘anti-bullying’ law and its defects, a review of Carl Sagan’s excellent Cosmos series, and an exploration of the concept of objective morality.
Notes:
- The Invention of Catholic ‘Limbo’ (catholic.com defense)
- Mississippi ‘Personhood’ Amendment (nytimes.com)
- Michigan ‘Anti-Bullying’ Law (time.com)
- Salaries of pastors at megachurches
- Carl Sagan’s Cosmos (hulu.com)
- Objective morality (wikipedia.org)
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The Personhood amendment was actually brought to the table twice in Colorado and was solidly defeated with a margin of around 70-30%. Despite the small comfort from knowing that Mississippi voters made the right decision, what’s disturbing is how close the vote was. (58-42% I think)
Interestingly, Penny Nance (of Concerned Women of America) along with other conservatives have recently spoken out against a bill that would provide diapers to low income families and day care centers with low income clientele.
It’s infuriating and entirely baffling to me how the Pro-life movement is so concerned with non-sentient clusters of cells, but don’t give a damn about the quality of life once a child is born. The unborn children they “save” are the same ones they call free-loaders, moochers, and drains on society later.
Link to Nane’s statements: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/25/connecticut-pushes-washington-to-offer-free-diapers-to-poor-mothers/