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    <title>Rally in Missouri Compares Fight Against Stem Cell Research to Civil Rights Struggle, Nazis</title>
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    <published>2006-08-01T12:37:10-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-07T15:56:22-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Ezra</name>
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    <category term="Alan Keyes" />
    <category term="Rick Scarborough" />
    <category term="Science" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Dallas-based right-wing organizer Rick Scarborough and former presidential candidate and talk-show host Alan Keyes &quot;kicked off a church-based campaign&quot; yesterday to defeat a Missouri ballot initiative on embryonic stem-cell research, <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/2B6CB52B1A7612DC862571BD0018B4C5?OpenDocument">reports</a> the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em>. Scarborough, a figure instrumental in building a network of &quot;Patriot Pastors&quot; in Texas willing to mobilize their churches around far-right causes and candidates, is using the stem-cell issue to recruit <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/06/texas_patriot_p.html">a similar network of &quot;Patriot Pastors&quot;</a> in Missouri. Scarborough is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/07/stem-cell_resea.html">promoting</a> the controversial Keyes as the keynote speaker in these &quot;Patriot Pastor&quot; rallies in much the same way that Keyes was featured in Scarborough's &quot;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=20904">War on Christians</a>&quot; conference earlier this year.</p>
<p>Yesterday's rally at a Baptist church in Jefferson City was described by the <em>Post-Dispatch</em> as the first shot in a &quot;<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/B26927B198FD331F862571BA007F0FA7?OpenDocument">three-month holy war</a>&quot; planned by Scarborough -- the first of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/07/stem-cell_resea_2.html">at least five</a> church rallies.</p>
<p>Scarborough and Keyes didn't pull any punches before the &quot;capacity crowd,&quot; as the newspaper reports: </p>
<blockquote><p><em>Keyes equated the effort to protect embryonic cells with the struggle for equality among African-Americans. And he likened the movement in favor of embryonic stem cell research to the Nazi effort to preach the inferiority of certain forms of humans.</em></p>
<p>&quot;We have sacrificed blood and treasure to bring (that thinking) to an end,&quot; he said. &quot;Shall we now vote to legalize it in Missouri?&quot;
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Dallas-based right-wing organizer Rick Scarborough and former presidential candidate and talk-show host Alan Keyes &quot;kicked off a church-based campaign&quot; yesterday to defeat a Missouri ballot initiative on embryonic stem-cell research, <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/2B6CB52B1A7612DC862571BD0018B4C5?OpenDocument">reports</a> the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em>. Scarborough, a figure instrumental in building a network of &quot;Patriot Pastors&quot; in Texas willing to mobilize their churches around far-right causes and candidates, is using the stem-cell issue to recruit <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/06/texas_patriot_p.html">a similar network of &quot;Patriot Pastors&quot;</a> in Missouri. Scarborough is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/07/stem-cell_resea.html">promoting</a> the controversial Keyes as the keynote speaker in these &quot;Patriot Pastor&quot; rallies in much the same way that Keyes was featured in Scarborough's &quot;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=20904">War on Christians</a>&quot; conference earlier this year.</p>
<p>Yesterday's rally at a Baptist church in Jefferson City was described by the <em>Post-Dispatch</em> as the first shot in a &quot;<a href="http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/B26927B198FD331F862571BA007F0FA7?OpenDocument">three-month holy war</a>&quot; planned by Scarborough -- the first of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/07/stem-cell_resea_2.html">at least five</a> church rallies.</p>
<p>Scarborough and Keyes didn't pull any punches before the &quot;capacity crowd,&quot; as the newspaper reports: </p>
<blockquote><p><em>Keyes equated the effort to protect embryonic cells with the struggle for equality among African-Americans. And he likened the movement in favor of embryonic stem cell research to the Nazi effort to preach the inferiority of certain forms of humans.</em></p>
<p>&quot;We have sacrificed blood and treasure to bring (that thinking) to an end,&quot; he said. &quot;Shall we now vote to legalize it in Missouri?&quot;
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