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The following is taken from an email I received today:

The first diatribe is on stem cell research; the second is on science.

Burgy

Date: August 10, 2006
From: Vision America
By: Dr. Rick Scarborough

The Rick Scarborough Report on the War on Faith

Earlier this week I shared some detail about our efforts to confront
the lies being told to Missourians regarding a proposed amendment to
their state constitution which will make human cloning for the
purpose of harvesting stem cells, legal, and will open the coffers of
the state treasury to fund such. It seems with every passing day the
war on people of faith intensifies and the forces of secularism keep
raising the bar in terms of their demands that America’s public arena
become a Gospel free zone. As I have often preached and as the Bible
clearly teaches, Satan is never content to take a little ground
.he
wants it all. And he is coming after America and the world in
unprecedented fashion.

Two current examples which illustrated my point were reported by the
secular media this week.

Human Cloning in Missouri
Fetal Farming

First and foremost is the battle we are engaging in Missouri. Our
next rally with Dr. Alan Keyes, will take place in Cape Girardeau on
Thursday, August 17 at the Notre Dame Regional High School at 7:00
PM. If you live within driving distance, I encourage you to come and
bring your friends. We are again praying for an overflow crowd in the
2000 seat auditorium where the event will be housed. We will host a
complimentary dinner and briefing for Pastors at 5:00PM in the school
cafeteria.

Who would have believed that when Roe v. Wade was mandated upon the
nation by the Supreme Court over 30 years ago that today we would be
debating fetal farming in Heartland, USA? Yet, in retrospect, it is
easy to see how a culture that decides to allow the annihilation of
40 million defenseless pre-born babies would one day embrace the
creation of babies for the purpose of essentially harvesting the body
parts at the earliest stage of development and in effect making human
life a consumer product.

I was a young man with little influence when Roe v. Wade was decided.
Now I am 56 years old with some measure of influence and I assure you
that I will fight to stop this madness as long as I have breath and
opportunity. What I need is your prayers and your continuing support
to fight this battle in Missouri. And what I really need is for
people who are not interested in a tax deduction to give to Vision
America Action, our 501c4 which is non-profit, but not tax
deductible, so I can speak freely and without restraint on this
important issue.

I have thought long and hard about giving our 501c3 back to the IRS
so I wouldn’t have to worry about stepping over some indefinite line
of offense. Free speech means free to preach, yet preachers in
America are not free to preach. I now have people attending my
speaking events to monitor my speech. We are not far from the old
Soviet Union in that regard.

Evolutionists Restrict Academic Freedom

In the latest example of how the left do not want free speech, free
thought, nor academic freedom, unless of course, you define the above
as the freedom to take God’s name in vain in public discourse, the
freedom to expound any radical leftist idea as gospel on a college
campus, or the freedom to teach college and high school kids that
President Bush and his cronies were responsible for 9-11, consider
what just transpired in Kansas. The left is celebrating the defeat of
two State School Board candidates who advocated giving intelligent
design equal time with the “theory” of evolution, in Kansas’ public
schools.

The zealots of evolution who understand that without evolution to
explain the origins of man, their who secular naturalist systems that
denies God, fails, raised and spent millions to spread lies about the
two candidates who simply advocated honesty in public education, and
deceived Kansas voters. Of course, this would have never happened had
God’s Pastors in Kansas united around truth and called their people
to be salt and light, but neither would it have happened had well
funded secularist not lied to the people.

As Chuck Coulson pointed out in his August 7th Breakpoint,

One can hardly blame the citizens of Kansas for not knowing what they
were voting for. The press attacked as “anti-science” those who
support a more comprehensive teaching of evolution. They were aided
and abetted by an outfit called Kansas Citizens for Science, which
told blatant lies about the current science standards. For example,
it claimed the standards mandated instruction about intelligent
design—even though they do not. It accused conservative school board
candidates of being “intellectually challenged” and “religiously
motivated.” In reality, conservative board members back science
standards written by people who hold doctoral degrees in the life
sciences.

Unfortunately, the smear tactics worked. And the question I have is
who paid for this massive campaign? That’s something we ought to find
out.

I agree
we ought to find out. And I would add: Christians ought to
vote. Are you registered to vote in November?

Beloved, I depend on your prayers and your faithful support. I will
be working this whole week in Missouri, attempting to network Pastors
and people who still care about this country and believe that our
Founder’ vision of “One Nation Under God’ was the best formula for
freedom and human success. We can restore this great land if we will
work and not faint.

If you have any of God’s resources which you can share this week, I
would be grateful and I believe that God would be pleased.

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Received on Sun Aug 27 10:40:22 2006