BUSH’S INSULT TO GAY AMERICANS

What on earth is a fire-breathing, Bob Jones University alum doing on the presidential commission on AIDS? Check out this man’s views here as noted in the Washington Post. AIDS is a “gay plague.” With the overwhelming number of victims worldwide being straight, and a majority of new HIV cases in America non-gay ones? “Homosexuality is not inborn biologically, just as incest and bestiality are not inborn.” Is the Bush administration equating gay citizens with people who practice incest? Is it saying that the vice-president’s daughter’s relationship is as immoral or as arbitrary as having sex with animals? Is it asserting, against every serious psychological study, that homosexuality is chosen like becoming a dentist? If it is, then please let us know and we can think and vote accordingly. If it isn’t, then what is an extremist like Jerry Thacker doing advising the president on AIDS? This isn’t a legitimate conservative voice. The man was at Bob Jones for seven years, for Heaven’s sake. They appointed him how long after the Lott affair? (Did he also endorse their ban on inter-racial dating at the time?) I’m sorry, but if he’s appointed, I can’t see how any self-respecting advocate for public health can stay on the same board. Or any self-respecting gay man or woman either.