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Pope declares cloning has 'shattered human dignity;' humans: 'What dignity?'

4aa4a_kirk van houten.jpg That pope — whats his name? Popey Poperton the Popeteenth? — says the darndest things. Our know-it-all Big Brother just reported on his latest hilarious proclamations. This time, he railed against the evils of stem cells and cloning — well, I'll let him tell you, it's so much funnier when he says it:


Practices like freezing embryos, suppression of embryos in multiple pregnancies, embryonic stem cell research, the prospect of human cloning and artificial insemination outside the body had "shattered the barriers meant to protect human dignity," he said.

"When human beings in the weakest and most defenseless state of their existence are selected, abandoned, killed or used as pure 'biological material,' how can one deny that they are being treated not as 'someone' but as 'something,"' he said.

Such practices "questioned the very concept of the dignity of man," he said in the speech to the department known as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Man, is he the next Louie Anderson or what? Get this guy a hot wife and a sitcom on CBS!

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