Rev. Peterson and Mel Gibson at Joint Press Conference Against Prop 71

Los Angeles--Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, participated in a press conference with actor / director Mel Gibson in an effort to defeat California's Proposition 71, which would use $6 billion of taxpayer funds for human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. The anti-Prop 71 rally and news conference was held Saturday, October 30, in front of Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital in Watts. Speakers included: Mel Gibson, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson (Founder / President of BOND), Dr. Vincent Fortanasce (President, Physicians for Compassionate Care), Joyce Ashley (Family Social Worker / Activist) and Molly Israel (President, Scholl Institute of Bio Ethics).

Sadly (for California and Californians), the vote tonight endorsed cannibalism as enlightened medical research. Mel's stance is primarily over the taxpayer funding of this project (though Ahnold says the payments will not start until 2006, if I recall his comments). Everyone reading this comment had a beginning of their lifetime. Being a human, the nascent age of embryo was part of everyone's lifetime. This proposition will make legal the conceiving and harvesting of human beings at their earliest age in their lifetime. Folks, that's cannibalizing human beings for body parts. I'm not surprised Californians voted to approve of this when weighed against possible economic boons from the research and development of the cannibalism technology ... but if God is outraged, as I believe He IS, the disasters which will occur in California will more than offset any economic benefits to that state. Yes, that's a prediction of ominous things to come for a state that endorses cannibalizing youngest human lives for older humans and it will not be disaster at human hands for I truly believe 'nature' will take revenge.

…Proposition 71, which would use $6 billion of taxpayer funds for human cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

I can not understand why it would require $6 Billion in taxpayer money. If it shows so much promise, why don’t the pharmaceutical companies fund it themselves?

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