{"id":2972,"date":"2006-04-18T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T09:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/palpable-anti-catholicism.html"},"modified":"2006-04-18T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T09:02:40","slug":"palpable-anti-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/palpable-anti-catholicism.html","title":{"rendered":"Palpable Anti-Catholicism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maryland Catholic Conference official remarks:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In her fight against state funding for embryonic stem-cell research, Nancy Fortier, Maryland Catholic Conference associate director for the respect for life office, said she was repeatedly confronted by lawmakers who called her a liar for pointing out that the stem-cell bill permitted cloning and that adult stem-cell research favored by the church has had far more success than embryonic stem-cell research. <\/p>\n

"I represented an obstacle and they didn’t like it," she said. "We stood for the truth and we shined a light on what they were doing." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Maryland Catholic Conference official remarks: In her fight against state funding for embryonic stem-cell research, Nancy Fortier, Maryland Catholic Conference associate director for the respect for life office, said she was repeatedly confronted by lawmakers who called her a liar for pointing out that the stem-cell bill permitted cloning and that adult stem-cell research favored…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nPalpable Anti-Catholicism? - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/palpable-anti-catholicism.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Palpable Anti-Catholicism? 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