It has now been, what, three weeks since Catholic Bishops in England, and by it's silence, the Vatican, stated that the homonculi/unnatural offspring between Man and Beast is "human".

Where is the outrage? combing the ruins of news sites, right wing blogs and sites dedicated to Dominionists, Creation Theory nary a peep - it hasn't been spoken of since June 26

Dark Christianity couldn't fathom why I posted the article there. dailykos.com could. Crossleft, a progressive christian webstie, could - my post still lives but click the permalink, and POOF! It's gone.

Perhaps, the lack of outrage on the part of the Dominionists is that they see this as a Sign. They shall prepare to do battle against the Legions of Man-made Demons... ?

Human-animal hybrid embryos conceived in the laboratory - so-called “chimeras” - should be regarded as human and their mothers should be allowed to give birth to them, the Roman Catholic Church said yesterday.

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 you 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?
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?


(x-posted to dark_christian)


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