It takes balls

for George (the) Bush to declare this , or any, day to be "National Sanctity of Human Life Day" but you can never say that Barbara Bush's Boy doesn't have balls. But having balls doesn't mean he isn't a hypocrite. This, of course, is just another prime example of Boy Bush's words being completely divorced from his actions. Would anyone who truly believes in the sanctity of human life make jokes about capital punishment, would refuse to interrupt his vacation to deal with the suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina, would justify the use of torture and want to do away with the right of Habaeus Corpus, and (worst of all) would knowingly start a war based on lies and use every power at his hand to keep it going as long as possible insuring that more and more people will die primarily because he started something that wastes innocent lives but has no personal cost to him. (Please don't think Bush Baby loses any sleep over the mess he has caused or the tears he shed are anything but a photo op)

It is sad to note that so many think only of abortion when it comes to the sanctity of human life but that is exactly what the Repubs and a lot of self-labeled Christians would have you believe. Yet those same hypocrites are cheerleaders for capitol punishment. Because I am a christian, I support the right of a woman to choose and I strongly oppose capitol punishment. These are the reasons that guide my reasoning.

I hold the belief that the sanctity of human life pretains to every human life. I also believe that a woman has the right to choose whether or not she will carry a fetus to term, to when it will breath and become a human being. In a more perfect world every child would be conceived in love and born into a world of love and hope and security but we don't live in a perfect world. I refuse to be the judge in deciding those very critical matters. Those decisions must be made by the individuals involved, societies role is to make it more possible for a woman to choose not to have an abortion but it should not demand she doesn't or can't have one.

I believe the sanctity of human life pretains to every human being, including a person who, through his or her actions, has demonstrated no concern for the life of another human being. The best way to say that is that I don't believe in capitol punishment in any case. There are bad people in the world, there are people who are and will be a threat to others, but there are no people that we, as a society, have a right to kill (capital punishment is, like war, just a socially acceptable form of killing). Society does have the right to protect itself from anyone who is a danger to members of the socety but it doesn't have the right to kill anyone.

My belief about abortion and capitol punishment are in synch. There is a distinct separation of individual and societal rights. Society's role is to enable life not to destroy it. Individual rights are to make the best choices possible to lead an healthy and constructive life for the individual and their children in the society they live in.

That's what I believe! Some might say I have balls! (I do)

Now it's time to stop this god damn war!!

Peace, if not now when?