Let me be very clear about this: I take my faith very seriously. And because I do, it marches right along with me into the voting booth. WWJD is for me not just a bracelet, but the key factor in my decision-making. And I have to tell ya - the following disturbs the h*ll out of me:
From a Palin speech this week:
"Where does a lot of that earmark money end up, anyway? [...] You've heard about, um, these -- some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not!"
This was a speech on autism, and a recent study of Drosophila fruit flies showed that a protein called neurexin is essential for proper neurological function -- a discovery with clear implications for autism research.
While we could go on and on about stem cell research, be it from adult cells or embryonic cells, this is research done on fruit flies, for doG's sake! And I'm certain her disdain was not over any moral issue about the relative worth of the life of a fruit fly, but instead about her perception that this research was a waste of tax dollars...perfectly good tax dollars that could instead be wasted on the war in Iraq or subsidies to oil companies.
And in case you missed it, the real fear factor comes into play with her total disdain of anything scientific. Or at least, it should scare you that any scientific research not directly related to blowing up terrorists will - under a McCain Palin administration - immediately become under- if not UN- funded.
You have a week to repent.
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