Baptists and Stem Cells

Chris Mooney is as usual on top of everything and today found a pretty amazing piece in the Baptist Press identifying a new focus among conservative Baptists on stem cell research. The description of the position comes in a summary of a major panel in Nashville and features a description of stem cell research as a new slave trade on the horizon. This is election relevant for sure and speaks volumes about the alignment of fundamentalist protestants with the Catholic perspective on embryonic stem cell research. No nuance is allowed concerning cells sourced from non-viable embryo-like organisms.