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Thursday, January 23, 2003

A nasty man is forced to resign!

I'm currently busy helping to tame my parents' skittish new cat Mombi, but I hope you all heard this one, courtesy of the Advocate ("Conservative withdraws from White House AIDS panel"):

A Christian activist chosen by the White House to serve on the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS is withdrawing his name under pressure for characterizing AIDS as the "gay plague," among other antigay statements attributed to him.

...Thacker is a former Bob Jones University graduate who later ran a radio station at the school, and his Web site at one point referred to AIDS as the "gay plague." He also referred to gay people as practicing a "death style," rather than a lifestyle. He has described homosexuality as a condition that can be cured by Christianity. Like the Bush administration, he promotes abstinence from sex as the way to prevent HIV infection. "For the unmarried, the only truly 'safe sex' is not to have sex," Thacker has written.

While I'm glad to hear this man is gone, this is by no means the time to put on a party hat. The Bush administration is full of similar homophobic abstinence-only wackos, and the fact that Bush and co. felt comfortable appointing him to the council in the first place is no fluke.
posted by Mikhaela Reid at 6:51 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well it's very hard to deny that the safest sex is no sex, in fact it's impossible to deny it. Of course sex isn't sacred or anything it's just a recreational pass time so I don't see how that would matter.

Gays having sex??? Okay, like that's real natural right? Sure, I know that doesn't apply here, these days everyone is an exception to the rule, morals need not apply. It's a world of do what you like and what feels good, there are no consequences to any of our actions. Anyone who stands up for what is morally right and natural is automatically a homophobic sociopath with hatred and vengeance for all.

But I know one thing for sure, you can't reason with people who have already justified what they do with a million and one inane arguments that are merely lame excuses for deplorable and morally debased behavior.

Face it, there's not one solid argument that you can come up with to challenge the fact that the practice of a homosexual 'lifestyle' and gay sex is natural. The only thing that you will be able to come up with are exceptions and exceptions are excuses. An excuse does not define what is right or wrong, it's just merely an excuse.

So chances are you won't post this comment, but I don't want to judge. Just for the record I don't hate anyone, I don't hate gays, I don't hate murderers or thieves or even Bush. People make decisions in life and they either make right ones or wrong ones and there are consequences for each.

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