This rat must be with the terrorists

Part of the neocon agenda involves degrading public education (math and science are particularly targeted) and hindering scientific research. Particularly under assault is any research that involves the word "stem", because for some reason the far right has deemed this to be against God's will. While I cannot recall reading "thou shalt not use stem cells to cure" in the Bible, we're assured it's in there if you interpret it the one true way. Of course, this is the same mentality that once preached that women should never be given any type of pain management during childbirth, because the male conservative thinkers of the time said that would dull their ability to feel Christ's pain, which is a gift. They also claimed that transplants and artificial organs would destroy someone's soul. OK, then. There's lots of precedent showing how difficult it is to reason with these kinds of folk.

Well, there was a breakthrough today. A paralyzed rat just walked. That's right, one of the holy grails (pardon the overused expression, and no blasphemy intended) of medical research was just achieved. Granted, it's just once, and it's just on a rat. But that's one small step for a rat, and one giant leap towards curing human spinal cord injuries. Here's a few of the articles:
 
American Council on Science and Health
 
Discovery.com
 
Wired

As you can probably guess, the catch is that the rat can walk due to stem cell therapy. So here's my proposition. Can all of the supporters of Bush and the folk that give him his agenda please sign a waiver saying that because they don't approve of any form of stem cell research, that they will never allow any cures that come from that research to be applied to them? The rest of us would remain free to support such research, and benefit from the medical breakthroughs, if any.

(political cartoon credit to Tom Toles. IMHO, the best of the best.)