Secular reasoning and stem-cell research

A few weeks ago, there were a series of interesting posts -- here, at the Volokh Conspiracy, on Professor Leiter's blog, at Legal Theory -- about religion and public reason, with particular emphasis on the stem-cell-research debate.

Readers might be interested in this statement, by Robert George, which he produced in the context of the President's Council on Bioethics work, "Human Cloning and Human Dignity:  An Ethical Inquiry."