Vital information, not sure why it wasn't in the original post.
Sherley, who has vowed to stand in protest outside the president and provost office for three hours each morning, says he believes the research is immoral because it requires the destruction of days-old embryos. He works only with adult stem cells.
There are lots of scientists working with adult stem cells. Many of those have been highlighted here at FR. This is not why he's being denied tenure. It's because his work is not particularly good by comparison to all of those others who are out there working with ASC. He lost my support when he turned this into a racial issue, which it is not. There are lots of non-whites with tenure at MIT.