Do you have a dog in the fight?
This was posted recently at Pastor Walter Snyder’s blog, Ask the Pastor: A Dog in the Fight
Reflections of a Lutheran Pastor Suffering from Parkinson’s
Contrary “opinions” from people like me might be rejected by supporters of Missouri Amendment 2. After all, I suffer from none of the afflictions they claim might be cured by experimentation upon the cells of human embryos. In matters of personal health, I have, as the saying goes, no “dog in the fight.” …
With this in mind, I contacted a recently retired pastor from my area to see if he’d share his personal thoughts on embryonic stem cell research and the upcoming vote here in Missouri. Not only do I respect him as a man and as a wise “old” pastor, I know him as one who has battled Parkinson’s Disease for a number of years.
Actually, my first look at Michael J. Fox’s video supporting the McCaskill campaign and ESCR made me immediately think of this brother, so I wrote him, “I’m curious as a brother pastor, a friend who enjoys your personality and insight, a Christian, and a voter what your personal thoughts are on Amendment 2 and the arguments surrounding it from both sides.”
He replied as follows and graciously gave me permission to use his private thoughts in this most public forum of blogging: Read the rest here
It’s too bad that this man’s firsthand opinion doesn’t make the news. Even if it did, his comments would probably be bashed as religious rhetoric. He certainly wouldn’t likely get the reception that everyone’s favorite actor, Michael J. Fox, gets.
M.Z. Hemingway analyzes the Washington Post’s coverage of Michael J. Fox’s recent commercial in favor of embryonic stem cell research in her post, Killing Embryos , at Get Religion.
M.Z. writes,
Last night, as I settled in to watch my St. Louis Cardinalsbeat the Detroit Tigers (fairly, no less!), I told my husband about a > political ad I’d seen the day before. It featured actor Michael J. Foxasking people in Missouri to support an amendment to their state constitution that would ensconce embryonic destructionfor the purpose of stem cell research.
I’m a big fan of Fox and I have followed his battle with Parkinson’s for a while. Which was why I was shocked to see what a devastating turn for the worse the disease had taken with him. He was writhing around, lifting a contorted hand and bobbling back and forth. When I had seen him on a television show a few weeks ago, he seemed to have been doing well.
Her contention is that “this and almost all other stories dealing with embyronic-destroying stem cell research is that they fail to distinguish between stem cell research and embryonic-destroying stem cell research.”
Both pieces are interesting.
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