Funny. Apparently Obama considers the current Presidential Council on Bioethics to be nothing more than a philosophical talk shop that avoids creating consensus. But… I thought they did have a (lame) consensus? Perhaps this is all nicey-nice talk for, “the group sucks, let’s make a new one.”

President Obama will appoint a new bioethics commission, one with a new mandate and that “offers practical policy options,” Mr. Cherlin said.

Probably this means one not poisoned by Judeo-Christian fundamentalism and Kassite stupidity. Though Obama is a Christian, he’s a Christian in that more modern sense of the word, as in, he pretty much ignores parts of the Bible he doesn’t like. He’s publicly denounced Leviticus, which is a good start. Here’s what Jesus said:

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Mark 5:18)

How about we like, say screw all the parts of the law that have to do with stoning women who aren’t virgins on their wedding night? Christians always like to use Jesus as an excuse to basically say that everything in the Old Testament is invalid, but Jesus himself said that he approves of the Old Testament. He also believed that Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale. He also said “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” (Matthew 19:24), and here’s how his group worked:

And all that believed were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. (Acts 2:44)

So Jesus was an advocate of being poor and communist.