Their ignorance is unlimited
Stories on religious bigotry, intolerance and ignorance are like buses. You don’t see one for ages then a couple turn up together. Following the AIDS story below comes this latest dose of brotherly love from the religious community.
Have a look at this story.
OK so one or two young women may be tempted to have sex before they are emotionally ready for it but isn’t that a small price to pay in order to save thousands of lives? It’s the King Canute syndrome again. Of course it would be better if no one had sex until they were 16 or 18, the same way it would be better if nobody drank to excess or drove at 100mph. The fact is that people do these things. We can legislate and campaign against them, we can and must plead for people to realise that with the rights they have in a liberal society come responsibilities. But this is a moral matter and morality should, within the boundaries set by the responsible society, be a personal decision. But again a mind full of fundamental religion has no room for anything else. Including rational thought.
Have a look at this story.
Thousands of lives could be saved by a new vaccine that could virtually wipe out cervical cancer when it becomes available next year, it has been reported. Doctors believe the drug could even end the need for regular smear tests.Isn’t that great news? The fight against cancer takes another big step forward. You’d think that no one in the religious community would have a problem with that. I mean aren’t they all pro-life? Didn’t they all campaign long and hard for Terri Schiavo’s right to live? They did. There’s a problem with this vaccine though. Did you spot it? Read the extract again.
The drug, administered with three injections for young girls before they become sexually active, would boost the immune system against the human papiloma virus.
The virus causes nearly all cervical cancers, which claim the lives of more than 1,000 women every year in the UK.
administered with three injections for young girls before they become sexually activeThere’s the problem. Although young kids get a measles vaccine before they get measles and a polio vaccine before they get polio, the religious right oppose this vaccine because girls may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex.
OK so one or two young women may be tempted to have sex before they are emotionally ready for it but isn’t that a small price to pay in order to save thousands of lives? It’s the King Canute syndrome again. Of course it would be better if no one had sex until they were 16 or 18, the same way it would be better if nobody drank to excess or drove at 100mph. The fact is that people do these things. We can legislate and campaign against them, we can and must plead for people to realise that with the rights they have in a liberal society come responsibilities. But this is a moral matter and morality should, within the boundaries set by the responsible society, be a personal decision. But again a mind full of fundamental religion has no room for anything else. Including rational thought.
posted by phylos @ 17:29
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