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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:16 AM
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The anti-stem cell folks in MO are out of their minds!
Edited on Tue Sep-12-06 09:16 AM by proud2Blib
They now have Alan Keyes on their team. Yep, that'll help em gain credibility!

Foes rally against stem-cell issue

Ex-presidential aspirant Alan Keyes and two clergymen call for the defeat of an amendment on the Missouri ballot.
By KIT WAGAR
The Kansas City Star
Local and national opponents of Missouri’s stem-cell initiative came together Monday in a rousing church revival that was part prayer meeting, part science lecture and part political rally.

Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes compared the initiative to terrorists who take innocent human life and to slaveholders who justified slavery by arguing that blacks were different. The Rev. Robert Finn, bishop of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese, also compared the battle against the initiative to the war on terrorism, calling early stem-cell research “the wholesale manufacture and destruction of human life.”

And Rick Scarborough, a Texas minister who founded the conservative organization Vision America, called early stem-cell research “a devilish science” and urged church members to get involved in the campaign to block the initiative.

“They say this is a David-and-Goliath campaign,” Scarborough said. “Remember — David won.”


more . . .
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15495786.htm

For those of you unfamiliar with Alan (gay people are heathens) Keyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:20 AM
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1. Not too long ago they punished Galileo
I would like to see these zealots sign a pledge that they would never use any medical advances we achieve through stem cell research.

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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:39 AM
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4. LOL I told one that very thing just the other day!
At our Sunday peace rally, we were visited by a group of 9/11 conspiracy folks. Which is fine, since we are an inclusive group and many in our peace group are also in the 9/11 groups. But then one of the 9/11 folks started passing out anti stem cell pamphlets. We imediately told her politely that this was probably the wrong group for that message. She became belligerent and started yelling about Jesus and protecting life.

So then we told her that if what she was claiming is true, then every time a woman menstruates she is committing manslaughter and every time a man masturbates it is murder. She of course didn't agree so I said "Well then if you come down with a disease that stem cell research has found a cure for, I expect you to refuse treatment."

Shortly after that, she left.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:22 AM
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2. Just wait. There'll be no stopping them when this guy joins the team.

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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:40 AM
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5. LOL
And he's a Cardinals fan!

:rofl:
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:32 AM
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3. Alan Keyes is desperate to stay in what limelight he can
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TlalocW
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-12-06 09:53 AM
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6. He bankrolled the minutemen too
Keyes is into these extreme right causes.
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