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City Councilman wants Feds to fund Scientology clinicJoining religion and government at the
hip
I've no objection to this clinic. I have every problem with it being
funded in any way by
government.
City Councilman Hiram Monserrate (D-Jackson Heights) called on the president to help fund a clinic for Ground Zero workers that many said has cured their Sept. 11-related ailments with a detoxification therapy developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Monserrate tried the therapy himself and called the 4-year-old New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project "a road map toward good health." About a dozen Ground Zero workers who joined Monserrate at a City Hall news conference Jan. 31 said the detox therapy cured ailments they have suffered from for years since Sept. 11 that other treatments failed to relieve. It is an intense regimen of physical and psychological exams, daily saunas and exercise, and high doses of vitamin and minerals, particularly niacin, designed to purge toxins from the body. Patients also stop other treatments such as asthma inhalers. The group's Fulton Street clinic has seen controversy in the past. A former Manhattan councilwoman who secured city funds for the program took political heat when it was revealed that she also accepted campaign donations from Scientologists. Government and religion should not mix. Just as religion should not endorse government, government should not endorse religion. Especially a specific one. 
Posted: Fri - February 9, 2007 at 03:13 PM
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