Your disbelief in God is your right as is my strong belief in God. The majority of our country has some sort of relegious belief . It is your right to not utter the word "God". I am glad to be of the majority in this case. As far as stem cell research goes, get educated on the subject. My wife has juvenile diabetes and our family knows of its extreme hardships. There is no hard proof that embryonic stem cell research works and adult stem cell research is being done with some interesting results. Embryonic stem cell research is being done in our country with private funding. The question is should federal dollars be used to support this research which carries serious ethical implications. Religion or not you are dealing with a living entity and that brings up the issue of when does life begin these are important questions, especially in a country where "the vast majority of Americans believe in a god of some kind".