Stem cell, gun control groups paid Huckabee

Source: USA Today

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee last year accepted $52,000 in speaking fees from a biotech giant that wants to research human embryonic stem cells, a non-profit working to expand access to the morning-after pill and a group pushing to study whether tightening gun control laws will reduce violence.

Huckabee opposes embryonic stem cell research, emergency contraception and stricter gun laws — all of which rank high on the list of deal-breakers for many of the religious conservatives whose support he's ridden to the top of the Republican presidential field.

Payments came from drug-maker Novo Nordisk, which engages in stem cell research; the Public Health Institute, which works to expand access to "morning after" contraception; and Grant Makers in Health, which is seeking to steer funding to studies of gun violence. The fees highlight the delicate line Huckabee has walked on the profitable speaking circuit.

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But along the way, he's accepted honoraria from public health interests that sometimes support causes anathema to the GOP right.

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So he's not receiving money from groups supporting gun control for stem cells? ;-)

Well, I might support arming bears, but I don't want to see those stem cells getting guns. I mean, those stem cells can just turn into any cell they want to. Who knows what kind of cell might end up with a gun? And it's probably not good policy to allow guns in cells, anyway. ;-)

dems getting funded by the war machine and the repubs getting funded by science? is it twilight zone yet?