Dr. Francis S. Collins is having trouble being appointed to direct the National Institue of Health, because he is a Christian according to Martin Peretz in the New Republic (hardly a bastion of the religious right):
He is a practicing and believing Christian. It's odd--isn't it?--that this fact should make a scientific designee unfit or unsuited for a job. Soon we will hear the same about judicial nominees. The establishment mounted a sustained campaign in the Senate (and outside) against President Wilson's nomination of Louis D. Brandies to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the candidate was Jewish, although some of his critics tended to be euphemistic rather than direct about their objections. Not so those who are against Collins.
He did pay his taxes.
Collins contrasts with the appointment of John Holdren as the "Science Tsar."
From FrontPage.Com: Collins wrote Ecoscience with Paul and Anne Ehrlich in 1977 and stated among other things a neo-Malthusian view and "If some individuals contribute to general social deterioration by overproducing children, and if the need is compelling, they can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" (pp. 837-838).
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