Originally published December 26, 2006
Law professor battles ALS
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061226/NEWS01/612260318/1010
[excerpt]
By Diane Hirth
DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER
A law professor who has proven himself brilliant at defending the
constitutional right of free speech soon will be deprived of his ability to
speak.
Steven Gey already is unable to use his weakening muscles to button a
shirt, lift a wet washcloth with his left hand or turn a key in a lock.
It's difficult for him to scribble the signature he's placed upon
voluminous works on issues of church-state separation and free expression,
including two textbooks and piles of legal briefs and articles he keeps in
cardboard boxes on the shelves of his Florida State University office.
Two weeks ago, the professor got a death sentence: a diagnosis of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
In all likelihood, it will paralyze Gey's body within a year and kill him
within three years.
[snip]
In the area of federal constitutional law he's clearly one of the great
scholars in this country," said former FSU President Sandy D'Alemberte, who
in his days as law-school dean hired Gey. "I'm just so sad about this
news."
Gey had a hand in many issues of the day. ABC News hired him to be a
commentator during the 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida. He
helped D'Alemberte in a U.S. Supreme Court case involving protesters
blocking entry to a Melbourne abortion clinic, then worked with the other
political side to block shutting down a pro-life Web site. He's assisted
groups defending the teaching of evolution in public schools and is on the
board of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
[snip]
The professor who readily admits being a card-carrying ACLU member, who
loves the freedom of thinking as a professor and defender of the
Constitution, thinks now of a coming darkness: "It really is, at the end of
the day, like getting buried alive.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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