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Students Rally Around Law Prof Struggling With ALS

Posted May 14, 2008, 12:23 pm CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Florida State law professor Steven Gey told his students last month that he can no longer teach because Lou Gehrig's disease is sapping his ability to speak, eat and even breathe.

His students are praying for him, even though Gey is an ACLU lawyer who defends separation of church and state and “rationalist, non-Christian governance,” the St. Petersburg Times reports. The professor was passionate in the classroom and popular with students, both Christians and atheists. "He believed people ought to be able to believe whatever they want," his wife, Irene Trakas, told the newspaper.

The disease is slowly killing Gey, forcing him to undergo hospitalization to have an feeding tube inserted.

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