Bush appoints homophobe to AIDS panel

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Jan 23 11:04:08 PST 2003


[via Ken Sherrill of the Hunter College poli sci dept]


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>1. BUSH AIDE: GAYS HAVE "HOMOSEXUAL DEATHSTYLE"
>President Bush's newest appointee to the Presidential Commission on AID,
>Jerry Thacker, thinks that gays have a "deathstyle" (instead of a
>"lifestyle") and that AIDS is a "gay plague." He also has compared being
>gay to incest and bestiality. The Washington Post wrote an incredible
>front-page story today about this jerk. It is truly a horrendous,
>horrendous, horrendous story. (Even more interesting, all of this guys'
>quotes have now disappeared from his Web site and from Bob Jones'
>University's Web site.)
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>Yep, our president is appointing anti-gay bigots to the Presidential Panel
>on AIDS. And oh yeah, the appointee is part of the "ex-gay" movement as
>well, pushing religious right's bogus lie that gays can "find Jesus" and
>become straight. Somebody certainly does need to find Jesus, but it's not
>us.
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>Read the Post article here:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30410-2003Jan22.html
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>You can read more follow up on this issue in this Blog:
>http://atrios.blogspot.com/
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>Then send it to ALL of your friends. This man is being sworn in next week,
>that is an abomination. This nomination stops now. Has the president
>learned nothing since the Lott fiasco last month? Apparently, elephants
>don't have as good a memory as folks say, at least not on civil rights
>issues.



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