Posted on 10/29/2004 1:53:28 PM PDT by kittylitter
To: National Desk
Contact: Christopher Norfleet of Focus on the Family, 719-268-4890 or culturalissues@family.org
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Oct. 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Focus on the Family Founder and Chairman Dr. James C. Dobson will interview Mel Gibson, director of the critically acclaimed "The Passion of the Christ," on his daily radio program Monday, Nov. 1, on the actor's outspoken opposition to California's Proposition 71. The initiative proposes to amend the state's constitution to foist $6 billion in public debt on Californians to fund the cloning of human embryos for destructive embryonic stem-cell research.
"Why are we being misled into thinking Prop 71 isn't about cloning, when it is?" Gibson asked. "I'm voting 'no' on Prop 71 -- creating life simply to destroy it is wrong, particularly when there are effective alternatives readily available.
"In 23 years, (animal) embryonic stem-cell research has not produced a single human cure. All it's yielded is tumors, rejection and mutations."
"The true promise for treatment and cures lies with adult stem- cells, which do not require the cloning of human embryos nor the destruction of those embryos," Dobson said. "The National Institutes of Health reports at least 74 diseases treatable by adult stem- cells. Sacrificing the tiniest members of the human family on the altar of science -- and questionable science at best -- is nothing short of state-funded cannibalism."
To hear the interview with Gibson, please visit: http://boss.streamos.com/real/focusonthefamily/ broadcast_support/prop71.smi.
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James C. Dobson, Ph.D. is a psychologist, author, radio broadcaster and the founder and chairman of Focus on the Family. Founded in 1977, Focus on the Family is a nonprofit Christian organization committed to strengthening the family in the U.S. and throughout the world. Focus on the Family's secular and Christian radio and TV broadcasts are heard or seen by 28 million people a week.
On why they're pushing this as a ballot proposition: "Bad science doesn't attract venture capital."
I wish John Wayne was still alive. They could have made a great movie.
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