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It keeps getting worse for certain liberal pols, especially liberal Catholics who continue to try to redefine the faith. On the heels of “pope” Pelossi’s comments on Meet The Press attempting to redefine when life begins, Democrat vice-presidential nominee Senator Joseph Biden (D-Del.) now wants to destroy human embryos for no reason, also in contradiction to Church teaching.

During his own turn on Meet The Press Sunday (see YouTube video here), Senator Biden started off well enough as he distanced himself from Pelossi, saying he knew life started at conception and understood Church teaching. However, he reiterated the typical gross, intentional misleading position that the Church’s believes only are for Catholics. (In other words, the “I can’t impose my believes on you” theory; or, the “I believe slavery is wrong, but if you want to own a couple, go ahead” defense.) So, when he votes to create new felonies, he’s not imposing his views on the rest of us, we suppose; and certainly not when he takes away and spends our money on failed programs that ostensibly are designed to help others. No, lawmakers never impose their morality on us. The fact is, Church teaching is that Catholics have a duty to protect innocent life, not to stand by while it is massacred. (Read the “Biden Gospel” here, by Father Thomas D. Williams, on National Review Online.)

Just as with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s fallacious remarks, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops quickly condemned Biden’s remarks (read the entire statement here). Justin Cardinal Riglai, Archbishop of Philadelphia and chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William Lori of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., and chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, wrote that the Church . . .

does not teach this as matter of faith; it acknowledges it as a matter of objective fact. … Protection of innocent human life is not an imposition of personal religious conviction but a demand of justice.

Then, a cutting blow to the deception on which the so-called “pro-choice” argument is made. Wrote the bishops:

Which living members of the human species should be seen as having fundamental human rights, such as a right not to be killed?

The Catholic Church’s answer is: Everybody . . . we have no business dividing humanity into those who are valuable enough to warrant protection and those who are not.

In other words, there is no compromise, senator, no matter how bad you want to rationalize it to accomodate your extremist friends.

Furthering Senator Biden’s blubbering attempt at Church doctrine were his remarks yesterday when he claimed that Governor Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) pledged support for parents raising children with developmental disabilities or birth defects should drive them to support embryonic stem cell research.

Speaking to voters at an event in Columbus, Missouri, Biden said:

I hear all this talk about how the Republicans are going to work in dealing with parents who have both the joy, because there’s joy to it as well, the joy and the difficulty of raising a child who has a developmental disability, who were born with a birth defect. Well guess what folks? If you care about it, why don’t you support stem cell research?

Catholic teaching clearly holds that embryonic stem cell research is unethical because it kills the embryo, from which life springs forth. Furthermore, he showed his lack of knowledge on the issue because recent research has proven there are techniques under development that soon will make embryonic stem cell research obsolete, where adult stem cells can be converted to act as embryonic stem cells. Not that it is necessary — while more than several dozen documented medical breakthroughs have been accomplished through adult stem cell research — not one has been accredited to embryonic stem cell research.

The McCain-Palin campaign fired off this response:

Barack Obama’s running mate sunk to a new low today launching an offensive debate over who cares more about special needs children. Playing politics with this issue is disturbing and indicative of a desperate campaign.

Wrote Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List:

Today Senator Biden outrageously implied that Americans who refuse to sacrifice innocent human life in the name of unproven, desperate attempts to cure our nation’s ills through embryo-destructive research somehow don’t really care about children. I am a mother of five children, one with a mental disability. The fact that Joe Biden questioned the compassion of parents like me — Governor Sarah Palin, among them — makes me sputter in disbelief. 

Religion is breaking out among liberals at a dizzying and profoundly hierarchical pace: first and foremost is Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama, the “messiah;” Governor Tim Kaine played “moses” and attempted to moved mountains in Denver; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fancies herself ”pope;” and former DNC Chairman Don Fowler prayed for a hurricane to hit New Orleans for political gain. What, then, could Senator Biden’s fallacious and egregious pronouncements make him other than the “bishop”? He preaches at no cathedral we’d want to attend.

Yesterday, at Mr. Jefferson’s capitol, the National Taxpayers Union, along with Tertium Quids, kicked off its national taxpayers pledge campaign with a news conference (read more about the event here). Perhaps there is no better location for such a launch other than the colonial capitol in Williamsburg where Patrick Henry railed against ol’ King George’s oppressive taxes. Interestingly, some of Governor Tim Kaine’s media staff attended, doubtless on guard now that it is clear Virginians aren’t exactly warm to his tax increase plans as he thought. (It must be tough getting re-accustomed to such mundane affairs after getting passed over for the VP nod.)

But this in not a no tax pledge campaign, in existence for years, which asks candidates to pledge not to vote or propose or sign into law tax increases. Unfortunately, not all candidates keep their word on that.

That’s where the No Tax Hikers campaign comes in. By signing the No Tax Hikers petition (click here), voting tax payers pledge not to vote for candidates who vote, propose or sign into law tax increases. (You also get a free bumper sticker.) It’s the inverse of the No Tax Pledge, a counter balance to the politicians who campaign one way then cavalierly abandon their ostensible small government principles once in office.

You think people are mad about rising taxes? Even before the official unveiling of its Web site, more than 5,000 people had signed the No Tax Hiker pledge. (A counter greets you on its home page.) The more people who sign it, the more politicians of all stripes will know there are waves of voters demonstrably serious about their commitment to low taxes and smaller government — and demonstrably serious about dealing with politicians who confiscate their hard-earned money.