Why Can't The Egyptians Be More Like Us

Everyone wants Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood to sit down and compromise with the secular Egyptians.  Ah, yes, another fairy tale.

Secular people can't understand why people of goodwill can't sit down and work out their differences.  What they don't seem to understand is that compromise with religious people is nigh to impossible.  Religious people follow God's will.  How can you compromise with that.  For Muslims, God's will is set forth in the Quran and in Sharia law.

For Christians it's right-to-life.

America has one big advantage.  We have a Constitution which specifically separates Church and State.  But people, whenever they feel strongly about something, try making an end run around the Constitution.  Right-to-Life is one such attempt.  For generations, we conferred personhood only after the fetus emerged from the womb -- not before.  This may please Christians, or not, but this is the way it's always been.  But, of course, Christianity posits the Immaculate Conception.  And, for Christians, this is when life begins, and, by extension, personhood.

Christians and many other religions believe that a child is a gift of God.  More technically minded people feel it's what happens when a sperm hits an egg.  Most people are repulsed by the idea of forcing a woman, and especially an 11-year old, to bring to term a fetus resulting from her father's or other family member's sperm.  A non-family member raping the female is even more repugnant (if that's possible).  And, yet, under the child-is-a-gift-from-God theory, some would argue that aborting the victim's fetus can not be allowed.  If this kind of thinking won't turn a God fearing person into an atheist, I fear nothing will.

What does God have to say about in vitro fertilization?  What does God have to say about a husband and wife who go to India to rent the womb of some poor lady for purposes of implanting their fertilized egg and then taking the baby when the Indian lady gives it birth?  Are we really going to tell a woman that she must bring her fetus to term, not because she wants to, but because God insists on it?   In Texas, the answer apparently is "yes."