[Keith Chester]

Well, for starters, my name is Replic. It has a different meaning from Republic as well as pronunciation. No problem though, most make that mistake.
2nd of all- Religion and politics are married, as much as you would like to keep it seperate. Politics are controlled by people who believe in a religion, thus bringing them together. It is impossible to seperate. And for the record, Aethism is a belief and therefore might consitute as a religion, so no, aetheist presidents will do no better than WASP ones. For those of you that don't know what WASP is, according to statisitcs (though I may be wrong with Bush...) every president up to Clinton had been White Anglo Saxon Protestant, EXCEPT for John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I do not know Bush's religion so I'm not sure if this is true anymore. This is getting into a completely different topic with a different level of complexity, so save any further thoughts and opinions on this for another thread. If you want, create it, and PM me. I'd love to participate.
As for cloning- the payback from it could be amazing. Diseases convential medicine can't cure could be cured. Limbs lost will no long be life-changing but a temporary experience as a new limb is quickly grown. To hold back this research is ludicrous! If I would go to hell for reasearching with stem cells (even though I would have no clue what to do as I am not a doctor) I would risk it if it meant better improving the conditions that humans lived in.
As for the pope (should iI capitalize pope? I don't know... does it fit under proper noun?) warning that Stem Cell research is evil... well, that was a dark moment for our dear Bush. It shows he is too serious about his religion in order to bend when needed. Why does the pope, a person with power only in the Catholic's religion, get to exercise power over Bush?
This is a deep topic, but I must say, the problems that come with the ability to fully clone a human being, such as being able to "raise an army" of super soldiers, is purely fictional and nearly impossible to do so. I'm sure the government could regulate cloning in such a way that it does not hinder its status yet prevent full human beings from being cloned.
Why oh why do I go against cloning full human beings? I disagree in playing God. This sounds like a religous moral or comment, but it is simply the wording that makes it sound so. Humans are arrogant creatures, and who knows what would happen to that arrogance if they can create life in a matter of minutes.