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Buckeye Back Road Tour cont.:<\/strong> \u00a0 We ended our pit-stop in Cleveland and have headed back out onto the back roads of Ohio. \u00a0 In Wooster, Ohio, farmer Ed Schafrath (brother of former Cleveland Brown Dick Schafrath), told me he once went to a seminar on organic farming. \u00a0 The presenter started with holding up a handful of soil and then posed a question: \u00a0 “How many of you think God makes mistakes?” \u00a0 No hands went up. \u00a0 The presenter then explained that God put thousands of micro-organisms into a handful of soil, all working together to make the perfect growing environment. \u00a0 Yet we now pump herbacides, pesticides, fertilizers… into the soil to “improve it.” \u00a0 Ed said after he heard this presentation, he bacame an organic farmer. \u00a0 Hard to argue with that, huh. \u00a0 \u00a0For more on our agricultural platform<\/a>… \u00a0 While in Wooster, we also talked to Eugene Grande, who had recently given a talk on “The Common Good” at St. Mary’s in Wooster. \u00a0 Eugene said that issues pertaining to the common good include: arms control, the death penalty, the environment, housing, labor and employment, poverty… \u00a0 He continued that each of these are subjective (according to the Catholic Church) in relation to view points of legislators and the electorate \u00a0in regard to \u00a0acceptable levels. \u00a0 However, he said the Catholic Church looks at the following points as always<\/em> \u00a0 “intrinsically evil”: \u00a0 abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, in-vitro fertilization… \u00a0 Eugene also offered the following in relation to the latter: \u00a0 “For a growing number of people, absolute beliefs or norms indicate nothing but an inablility to tolerate other peoples’ views and convictions. \u00a0 History provides evidence that relative standards of morality breed chaos and ultimately the downfall of society.” \u00a0 By the way, anyone see how the stock market did yesterday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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