I’m back again…your old radio colleague from Crawford Broadcasting Company. I guess no one else has anything interesting to say about this issue, but I can tell you something that happened in 2004, regarding this topic.

I was at the Billy Graham crusade in 2004, sitting in the media section on the final night. I was the only counselor at the crusade who had a media pass, and sitting next to me were 2 young women reporters from the Los Angeles Times. Before the event began, we were chatting about what the Christian Community believed in on a variety of issues, and one of them asked me where we stood on the issue of stem cell research. Both women were curious on the controversy surrounding the idea of embryonic stem cell research, and they wanted to know what we believed, and why we believed it was wrong. They were surprised when I told them that the Christian community was not necessarily against stem cell research in itself, but that we only objected to embryonic stem cell research. I told them that we believe that all human life is sacred, and that doing research on babies and killing them afterwards is the reason why we objected to embryonic stem cell research. When I told them that we have no problems with adult stem cell research, I told them that we have no problem with it, since the individual who donates the cells for research does it voluntarily, and is trying to help save a life with the research, without losing life in the process of research. I believe these two young ladies learned something valuable that night, which will hopefully stick with them the rest of their lives.