Tuesday, April 25, 2006

A Pharmacy Without Pills

Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher wiggled, squirmed, and has finally acquiesced to the religious right. Fletcher now says that he will not veto state funding for a pharmacy for the University of the Cumberlands which recently expelled a student for being opening gay.

Fletcher has waffled back and forth on the issue before announcing that if the courts say it is constitutional for the state to fund a private college, he will allow the school the money. He also noted that this isn't being funded by taxpayer dollars, but this money comes from coal severance taxes paid by coal companies.

None of that matters really. The bottom line is that the state of Kentucky is about to spend $10 million on a pharmacy that has little chance to gain accreditation from the Accreditation Council on Pharmaceutical Education given the school's bigoted behavior, thus the school is planning on building a pharmacy without pills.

This is egregious waste of money considering that Fletcher announced that he also had to cut $370 million from the state's budget.

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