June 15, 2008
T. Denny Sanford ties knot with California embryonic stem cell researcher
No kidding… a couple years ago when we were all celebrating the 400 million dollar gift from T. Denny Sanford to build a new Children's Hospital in Sioux Falls and it was unveiled that it would look like a castle, I had a prophetic awareness that it would have a secret dungeon under it. This actually haunted me for some time, I'm being honest and I'm not joking. This isn't funny to me. What I saw was that in the dungeon children would be "parted out" so others could benefit from their destruction. I told a few friends and said "let's watch this closely and see how unborn children fit into the Sanford vision."
There have been hints for months that my suspicions were accurate such as the one I reported here. Today, Father's Day, the Argus Leader is saying it's all true -Sanford eyes stem cell study - California partnership could bypass South Dakota ban on embryonic research. In other words, it's not legal here, so they have to link up with some folks in California to get it done.
South Dakota says "NO" so T. Denny Sanford jets off to California to tie the knot with an embryonic stem cell researcher there. You can be assured no living baby will result from this union (it's a marriage of Mammon and Molech). Just because something is "legal" in California doesn't make it right. But this isn't about "right," this is about "finding cures." However, one would think T. Denny Sanford would have enough business sense to put his money in something that actually works and holds promise.
This is where I just don't get it. There have been NO - that is ZERO - NO cures or benefits uncovered in ANY embryonic stem cell research EVER! Why can't the media report this fact? Embryonic stem cells mutate and destroy life. And, of course, a life, a separate and distinct human life is destroyed to get them. On the other hand, adult stem cells have PROVEN miraculous. Brother Denny, here's the score…
Why doesn't he put his money behind something that has promise? While many in our city swooned at the mere thought of this generous man, I just couldn't join in.
My battle isn't against flesh and blood - bless Denny Sanford I wish him the best. I truly believe most in the anti-life camp have no idea the spiritual realities behind the things they are devoting their energies and resources toward - they know not what they do. I'm fighting a dark demonic spirit at work in people and systems, a vicious spirit that has no mercy on the unborn and everything that bears the image of it's enemy, God. Our city/state/nation needs prophetic voices. My question is, Avera [Hospital] has the 'Presentation Sisters' as a moral anchor, is there any such moral mooring at Sanford Health? I know scores of great and Godly people who work at Sanford Health, even in high leadership posts - Godly people. But what's underneath it all - what is the moral foundation? Maybe Sanford Health is hoping this will all go by unnoticed and unopposed. (Scripturally, the silent are complicit in terms of blood guilt). Those of you who know me know I view silent churches today on the LIFE issue to be no different than the silent churches during the holocaust. The reason I speak out so strongly is because silence is consent and those most effected have no voice.
Filed under Abortion - national debate, Argus Leader, Embryonic Stem Cells, Mammon and Molech by Steve
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Note via email @ 5:49 am
As a Christian with an active spiritual life, both in study and in service, I believe it is important for you to know that I am surprised a man who has chosen God's work as his vocation would use such language as I have recently read in your Voices Carry blog. Though I will respect that you and I hold different views on abortion, I believe you have a responsibility to show the love of Jesus in your writings, instead of spreading the very judgement He warned us against. I believe your comments are also judging me as a pro-choice Christian, and I believe that role is held up only for God. I also am shocked that you would be willing to vilify one individual woman with such language. Though I do not believe she should be considered an enemy of anyone, especially the many women she works tirelessly to heal everyday, I have been taught that we as Christians are supposed to pray for our enemies and to tame our tongues, in the very manner Jesus taught us by His own example. I just wanted you to know that it will be my prayer for you to be reminded in your own devotional life and I hope in your actions as well, of the love Jesus has for all of us, and of His greatest commandment to love Him with our everything and to love our neighbors as ourselves.
Steve @ 5:50 am
Thanks for writing me and sharing honestly. You are correct in that what I've written crosses the line for what people think should come from a pastor today. Yet that's my point, pastors are too soft and they aren't a prophetic voice to our culture and living human beings are being dismembered in their mothers wombs without anesthesia (they feel pain at 8 weeks). I can make a scriptural case that the spiritual leaders have a sacred obligation to do what I'm doing. There is "a time to love and a time to hate." (Eccl. 3:8) Shocking verse I know. Psalm 45 says we are to "love righteousness and hate wickedness." We are called to hate what God hates. The Bible isn't silent on what God hates- he "hates divorce" (not divorced people to clarify), he hates immorality, and he hates the shedding of innocent blood. Abortion is the shedding of innocent blood.
I've deleted and edited out the references in the post to Dr. Bell and apologize to you and I apologize to Dr. Bell for my point wasn't to attack personally. My intention was for her to represent something and that obviously didn't come across (she has put herself out there as an official representative of that sopmething). I did specify in what I wrote that she was a representation of something else and I also spoke words of blessing to her personally in the post. I even said in the post she's not the enemy. But again she is one of the main voices advocating killing children for any reason and woe to the minister who says nothing. I do apologize for stooping to the level of the anonymous bloggers on the other side - just this week one called the Unruh's "media whores." Unlike them, I'm not anonymous and I am accountable for what I say and my attempts at using rhethoric and metaphor were ill-fated.
In his day, Dr. Martin Luther King had strong words, piercing prophetic words against those who believed blacks were less than human. I'm in good company then today to speak as I do to those who think the unborn are less than human. Also, in light of the harsh direct words/name calling of some of the Old Testament prophets and also the stinging and labeling words of Jesus and Paul on numerous occasions my words don't seem out of line at all. Jesus called people vipers, blind guides, etc.
You are a Christian and accountable to God as I am. His Word says he know us before we even enter our mothers womb. (Jer. 1) That means life doesn't begin at conception - it begins long before that in the mind of God as he has a dream for each life. How can a Christian be okay dismembering and snuffing out the life of that dream? Talk about unloving. I'd rather offend an adult than see a child hurt. Jesus spoke great judgments against those who harm children. Again, I appreciate your note and will continue to weigh my words carefully so I can stand before God and give account. I will be in prayer for you also. Blessings to you.
Gera Schmidt @ 12:01 am
Nothing is more "offensive", judgmental, repugnant, and depraved language, than a Christian proudly professing he is a Pro-Abort, active in his spiritual life. WRONG!!! He is a fake and fraud and Christ would take a whip and chase him from the temple! Good grief, be Men with Chest, and stand up to that dribble! Discernment is different than judgment. This guy is a mess. I rather doubt he will be a Pro-Abort forever. He'll have Eternity to decide. Yikes. I rather doubt he would take off the "hood" and expose his face, name and family, along with his parish and friends as the Pro-Abort touting a murder mentality stance. There may be repentance for his eternal life, I can't say. He is clueless. Such apathy of ignorance.
He shows no love of Jesus for the human unborn.
His Pro-Abort status is to be judged by man as a quake is to a duck. A yuk. Period. His heart needs taming. There is Death Thirst and Drink in Pro-Choice, as we know what that means. Does he? Scary.