Update: It has now been a couple of weeks since this story was first published, and the silence from the Vatican is stunnining in its volume level. While the Church rails against Gay Marriage and the Material world, we live in and are of, there seems to be no concern over this. My question is:
WHY?
Under draft Government legislation to be debated by Parliament later this year, scientists will be given permission for the first time to create such embryos for research as long as they destroy them within two weeks.
But the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales, in a submission to the Parliamentary joint committee scrutinising the draft legislation, said that the genetic mothers of “chimeras” should be able to raise them as their own children if they wished.
Uhm, Bishops? Doesn’t that violate the Biblical prohibition against bestiality? You remember th Bible? You quote incessantly in regards to homosexualtiy, but apparantly this: And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. - That’s Leviticus 20:15. or: qui cum iumento et pecore coierit morte moriatur pecus quoque occidite
Okay, the "Mom" decides she wants to birth the hybrid. What of the following:
Health Care. MD or DVM - Mumps or "Strangles"?
Education? Public School or Obedience School
Will using a cattle prod on your Oppositional-Defiant Minotaur brat be ‘child abuse’?
Diet: Vegetarian or Cannabilism? Do you really want to run the risk of eating a relative?
would a ‘chimera’ be protected under the ADA or the Humane Society?
How about friends? Will he/she be like Enkidu and friend only the Beasts of the field and wood? and can you raise a centaur in a 5 story walkup?
Who pays for the support of the "child"?
On the other hand, it does make for interesting body mods ala Samuel Delany’s Empire Star
Stud Fees, anyone?
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