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Imagine the liberal hysteria that would immediately erupt upon any use of government funds to promote the Judeo-Christian principles which have upheld our nation's freedom and prosperity for over two centuries. America, we are incessantly told by the left, was founded on the principle of "separation of church and state" (as if life, liberty, and all of the other noble ideals of this republic were mere afterthoughts). An attempt by the nation's leaders to advance a religious or Christian worldview would, in the minds of liberals, constitute a mortal threat to the future of the country.

Yet those same liberal interest groups that relentlessly seek to drive every vestige of traditional morality from the public arena are among the most zealous advocates of replacing such precepts with their own twisted dogma. The decision by the Obama Administration to reverse the ban on federal funding of fetal stem cell research is a prime example.

The issue is not one of "miracle medical cures." Fetal stem cells have consistently proven completely useless in any medical procedure, while stem cells taken from adults, who do not have to be exterminated in the process, are showing positive results and great promise of future successes in many areas of medical treatment.

Nor does the fetal stem cell controversy have anything to do with the "freedom" to conduct honorable scientific research. Private research has been taking place throughout the medical and scientific communities in this country, and around the world, for many years. Admittedly, this situation is every bit as detestable to the fate of the unborn, but it has allowed at least the insinuation of passivity on the part of the government. Of course such a distinction, symbolic though it may be, still does not sit well with the current abortion/death culture.

Perhaps most significantly, with the total lack of meaningful results from fetal stem cell experimentation, no commercial use for them can be claimed. As a result, like so much of the worthless "art" that debases the current culture, the only possibility of reaping monetary value from fetal stem cell work is with the involvement of government funding.

In another, more sane time, a "medical" process that was expensive and unnecessary, bore no worthwhile results (and in fact has tendency to cause serious harm to its recipients, including cancerous brain tumors), and involved the needless destruction of innocent human lives would be summarily abandoned. Nevertheless, the vaunted study of fetal stem cells and their completely illusory medicinal value is repeatedly held up as a shining hope for the future of humanity. Obama commended this notion in glowing terms on March 9 as he signed the executive order allowing federal funding for such research.

In reality, the ultimate intention of fetal stem cell proponents glares from one of Obama's comments made as he signed the order, or to be more accurate, the total absence of truth in that statement. He piously claimed that "humanity and conscience" are embodied in the pursuit of fetal stem cell experimentation. Here at last, liberals believe they have a way to reconcile humanitarian virtue with the unspeakable horror of human abortion.

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