Breast cancer research supporters hope this controversy actually sparks a big fundraising effort outside the diocese.
Mike Sugg's wife, Jenny, was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was 28 years old. "She fought for three and a half years and she passed away last December. It has been about seven months since she passed."
The father of two from Toledo says the Susan G. Komen Foundation family was a big support system for his wife before she died. "Without Komen and without the support we received, who knows what we might have been up against."
Sugg and his wife were high school sweethearts at Central Catholic. He and his kids are parishioners at Christ the King. He's upset that Bishop Blair sent the letter to Toledo Catholic schools and parishes urging them to find alternatives to Komen for fundraising efforts saying the bishops of Ohio believe the organization will fund embryonic stem cell research in the future.
Opponents of the bishop's letter created a Facebook page titled: "Shame on you, Bishop Blair." The bishop says as long as they don't fund embryonic stem cell research, he does not condemn or ban catholic individuals from supporting Komen.
