{"id":4177,"date":"2003-01-23T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T18:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2003-01-23T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2003-01-23T18:16:11","slug":"well_at_least_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/well_at_least_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, at least someone<\/i> showed some sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

And, remarkably enough, it was Jerry Thacker himself, who has withdrawn<\/a> from his appointment to the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS.<\/p>\n

This is the gent who has previously referred to AIDS as the “gay plague,” and to the “gay deathstyle” as being a major cause of the disease. And when he and his wife discovered they had contracted HIV due to a transfusion they’d received, the worst part of it was (to them) the disease’s association with the “sin” of homosexuality, and the fear that folks might think (gasp) they <\/i>were gay.<\/p>\n

I think it’s fine that a straight man was chosen by the Bush administration to be on the commission. I don’t even mind a modicum (though the Bushies are aiming for a lot more than that) of discussion about abstinence in the context of AIDS prevention.<\/p>\n

But to have chosen someone whose homophobia is so clear to such a panel was … well, just damned stupid of the administration, despite the shucking and jiving by Ari Fleischer today:<\/p>\n

“The views that he holds are far, far removed from what the president believes,” Fleischer said. “The president has a total opposite view. … The president’s view is that people with AIDS need to be treated with care, compassion.”<\/p>\n

Then why the heck was he chosen to the commission? Didn’t anybody read his damned web page<\/i>? Yeesh.<\/p>\n

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And, remarkably enough, it was Jerry Thacker himself, who has withdrawn from his appointment to the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS. 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