Kick-Off Rally on Stem Cells/Cloning just a Beginning

Rev. Rick Scarborough, of Vision America, was the organizer of Monday's event in Jefferson City at the Concord Baptist Church. This rally was the first of five over next few weeks. The goal of the rallies is to educate the public on the stem cell initiative to be voted on in November.

Shao-Chun Chang, a researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, argued that one area of research protected by the ballot measure, called somatic cell nuclear transfer, is human cloning.

This fact is widely dismissed by the proponents of the initiative, who have redefined cloning to serve their Frankenstein-like ends. How convenient it is when one is able, with court approval, to change the meanings of words, particularly in matters as this.

[The event's keynote speaker, Alan] Keyes equated the effort to protect embryonic cells with the struggle for equality among African-Americans. And he likened the movement in favor of embryonic stem cell research to the Nazi effort to preach the inferiority of certain forms of humans.

"We have sacrificed blood and treasure to bring (that thinking) to an end," he said. "Shall we now vote to legalize it in Missouri?"

Those who favor the killing of innocent human life are either woefully ignorant of history and/or masic moral principles - or - they do not care to be bothered by such things, they are morally and spiritually dead.