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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 12/01/2007 : 04:02:18
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While modern medical science struggles to defeat AIDS, the President of the United States is pushing his faith-based, abstinence-only program for "combating" HIV in Africa. MOUNT AIRY, Maryland (CNN) -- U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday stressed the role of faith-based groups in the fight against AIDS, calling the struggle one of conscience and morals on the eve of World AIDS Day.
Bush was speaking at Calvary United Methodist Church in Maryland after meeting with representatives of religious and community groups.
"Faith-based groups like these are the foot soldiers in the armies of compassion," he said. "They are helping to defeat this epidemic one soul at a time."
More than 33 million people worldwide have HIV -- the virus that can lead to AIDS -- according to the United Nations. That includes 2.5 million children younger than 15.
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Friggin' theocratic moron. The real "foot soldiers" of the struggle against HIV are the doctors, nurses, volunteers, and researchers who are working round the clock and round the world to defeat this dreadful plague -- a plague that Bush's allies even deny has its ability to mutate and evolve to counter the best science has so far thrown at it.
It may be a long struggle before AIDS is defeated, but science, not criminally incompetent fundamentalist missionaries getting tax dollars for useless abstinence-only programs, will be the victor, if victory is possible at all.
I truly believe that the fundies want Africans to continue dying, especially if they can get tax dollars and a front-row seat while watching the spectacle.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Bush and fundies, sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-HIV!
