Black Political Zone

The St. Louis Times recently reported about African American clergy in the city who are taking on the issue of embryonic stem cell research. Clergy find themselves introducing a topic to African American congregations that is new, yet also running in opposition to mainstream evangelical conservative groups. They write:

Catholic and conservative evangelical Christian church leaders have been outspoken for years in opposition to embryonic stem cell research, but the efforts of some of the state's African-American church leaders is evidence that Christians on both sides of the debate have been recruiting their armies for what some have called the Gettysburg of America's culture war.

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