The Retard of the Month for June 2004 was:

Current US President George W. Bush for his religiously motivated actions that effectively halt stem cell research in the United States.  Stem cell research has the potential to deliver many medical advances that were previously impossible, possibly saving the lives of millions of sick people and improving the quality of life of many more sick people.  The lives and welfare of millions of people are affected by by George Bush's insane belief in a magical sky-daddy.  Mr. Bush knows that his actions will hurt many people but he does it anyway simply because he thinks that that's what his God wants him to do in order to get to heaven.  In a sense he is no different than a suicide bomber, he's willing to kill many other people so that he can get to heaven.

Mr. Bush's actions continue a long legacy of Christian stupidity and interference into legitimate medical research.  In the past couple of centuries Christians have rioted to prevent medical schools from using dead bodies to train medical doctors because they thought that autopsies might keep the dead from going to heaven.  Christians have fought in-vitro fertilization which has allowed millions of infertile couples to bear children, and many of them are still fighting against sex education programs which include "safe-sex" techniques, such as condom use, which help prevent the spread of deadly diseases such as AIDS.  Many historians also think that Ronald Regan's slow response to the AIDS crisis was partially motivated by his Christian belief that AIDS was a punishment from God against homosexuals.

Because Mr. Bush has about the same moral standards as Osama Bin Laden, he is awarded the EvilBible.com Retard of the Month Award.

Links:

• Bush's Speech about Stem Cell Research

• The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Stem Cells

• AAAS/ICS Report on Stem Cell Research