On the Square Today

Wesley J. Smith on the coming public conflict over human cloning :

Ultimately, cloning would be the key that opens the door to countless other brave new world technologies, like one possible future procedure already termed “fetal farming,” whereby cloned fetuses would be matured in artificial wombs as sources of organs for transplant patients. Cloning is also the essential technology to learning how to genetically engineer human life, a technology with which “transhumanists” hope to create a “post-human species.” As the Princeton biologist Lee Silver, a cloning and human enhancement enthusiast, wrote in Remaking Eden : “without cloning, genetic engineering is simply science fiction. But with cloning, genetic engineering moves into the realm of reality.”

Also today, Louis Markos on loving the sinner without loving the sin :

I normally avoid documentaries that use questionable methods of Bible interpretation to promote the gay lifestyle as both natural and normative.  For the Bible Tells Me So  (2007), however, was not so easy to dismiss. Directed and co-written by Daniel Karslake, this manipulative yet compelling, slanted yet challenging documentary presents us not only with the expected attempts to reshape the Bible on a modern/postmodern lathe, but with the powerful, heart-breaking stories of five Christian, church-going families who are forced to deal with the reality of having an “out-of-the-closet” son or daughter.