From its chats with various leading lights of the Christian Right, God-o-Meter knows the embryonic stem cell issue has emerged as the biggest sticking point between the movement and McCain. How much of this is because the Christian Right feels that last year's scientific breakthrough allowing skin cells to be reprogrammed to mimic embryonic stem cells gives their ailing anti-embryonic stem cell research cause new life? Quite a bit.
Well, it didn't exactly give us new life. It ended the stem cell wars entirely. All the science journals know it; the mainstream pubs acknowledge it; the staffers on the hill are glad to be rid of the proxy war. Only the candidates for President this cycle seem not to recognize this fact. Oh, and Beliefnet.