'If Romney were interested in promoting the best health outcomes for his fellow citizens, he would support laws that provide good access to birth control and emergency contraception. This might contradict his professed beliefs, but it would more fully fulfil his presidential duty. Instead, Romney is putting religious purity, of one kind, ahead of American health.
And this is not uncommon. Once we begin with a metaphysical hypothesis - that a benevolent god created all things, for example - it takes little to smuggle more beliefs and values into this supernatural cache. This is what I have described elsewhere as metaphysical sleight of hand. These beliefs and values are then unchallenged by new evidence or arguments: they are too pure to sully with empirical or logical contradictions.'
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