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Buster Gammons















Friday, August 22, 2014

I Challenge The Cincinnati Catholic Diocese . . .


. . . I challenge it to pull its head out of its ass!
Jimmy Fallon & the Tonight Show gang, NYC

Eastern Kentucky University administrators
If you're still above ground, you could not have missed the ubiquitous "ALS Ice Bucket Challenge".  Videos are everywhere.  It's a creative fundraising idea from the ALS Association which has raised tens of millions of dollars for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) research in just a couple weeks.

Copley Square, Boston


Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Paul, MN

USA men's basketball team, Chicago











It's a great cause and everyone is having fun with it, except for the Cincinnati Catholic Diocese.  These curmudgeons are opposed to the ALS Association because some of their money funds embryonic stem cell research, a process which, according to the Diocese, "destroys embryonic life."   (Embryonic stem cells used in research are leftovers from infertility treatments and would otherwise be flushed down the drain.  They are days-old, microscopic bits of protoplasm, not viable "life".)

What possible good can come from the Diocese's objection?  The Catholic church has a terrific talent for picking the wrong side of social issues.


















Cincinnati Diocese:  "We do not approve.  Harrumph!"


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