Beautiful people

I have copied the following straight from Counterpunch:
 
'The  Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen, unimplanted embryos qualify as human beings under state law. Here’s an excerpt from the opinion of the Chief Justice of the Court, Tom Parker:

"In summary, the theologically based view of the sanctity of life adopted by the People of Alabama encompasses the following: (1) God made every person in His image; (2) each person therefore has a value that far exceeds the ability of human beings to calculate; and (3) human life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God, who views the destruction of His image as an affront to Himself. Section 36.06 recognizes that this is true of unborn human life no less than it is of all other human life — that even before birth, all human beings bear the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory."

This is the same Supreme Court that ruled the experimental destruction of Kenny Smith’s life by suffocation with nitrogen gas neither “effaced the [God’s] glory” nor the state’s constitution.'
 
It must be a remarkable feat for a mortal judge to know God’s mind so well that he can intuit which humans aren’t made in God’s image. I wonder how in the United States, where the constitution stipulates the separation of state and religion, a court—which is a pillar of the state—can base decisions on specious religious assumptions. Extraordinary.