Many fine museums are engaged in the effort to present accurately a
community's cultural heritage, or the cultural heritage of an entire region
or state.   We are educational institututions.  I don't know how science can
be overlooked altogether in interpretation, especially when new developments
are culturally sensitive. Our Constitution created government to provide for
the safety and security of all, and this paramount purpose of government
trickles down to every locality.   Whether the framers of the Constitution
had in mind unborn children, who knows?

Mr. Fink's remarks may be the only inappropriate posting in this discussion,
but he is entitled to his viewpoint.  The "state," in America, is
theoretically "we the people."  Not so in many nations, especially those
controlled by zealots.

>The only "ethic" here lies in the power struggle of zealots
>further dictating to the state and to science.
>Bob Fink

Ross Weeks Jr.
Historic Crab Orchard Museum & Pioneer Park
Tazewell, Va.
http://histcrab.netscope.net

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