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Thursday, September 02, 2004

Doing More For AIDS

Protesters in New York want the President to do more to battle the AIDS virus.

NEW YORK - About 100 anti-Bush demonstrators staged a quick, loud and well-organized protest at Grand Central Terminal during the early morning rush hour Thursday, unfurling banners that called on the president to do more to fight AIDS.

The short protest began at 8:05 a.m. when a man strode into the middle of the terminal's vast concourse and blew a whistle, signaling 100 other demonstrators to pour into the hall from various entrances and ticket lines, chanting "Fight AIDS, not Iraq." Almost simultaneously, demonstrators positioned on staircases on either side of the concourse unfurled banners that read: "America has AIDS. Our next president must stop the plague."


The problem with this protest is that the President is doing a lot to "stop the plague." Even though America already provides more than half of all the funding for international AIDS programs (approximately $460 million) he has called for a 10% increase in the amount of money allocated for it (roughly $200 million more). America provides twice as much money for AIDS programs as any other nation on earth, and yet these protesters want more?

Something tells me that these protesters wouldn't be satisfied even if Bush found the cure for AIDS himself in a private lab in the Oval Office.

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Avatar for Seth Yantiss

The majority of all the opposition to Bush’s AIDS policy is that we require more education into Abstinence… the only 100% proven and 100% effective means to stop the spread of the disease. 

But the chants of the left are to say “This is cruel and racist.”

Yes, yes… very cruel… to suggest that the American peoples money should be spent fighting AIDS only if Abstinence education is provided.  It doesn’t say that other methods can’t be taught… it just says that Abstinence has to be taught…

Oh, the humanity…

Just picture it… you have AIDS… you need drugs… the people who have the drugs to help your suffering tell you that they are going to educate you on Abstinence before they give you any… THE HORROR… who are they to tell you how and when and with whom you should have sex??????  Just because you have AIDS doesn’t mean that you can’t and shouldn’t have sex… Why shouldn’t you be allowed to have sex as many times a day as you can???  CRUEL, I TELL YOU !!!  CRUEL !!!

Seth Yantiss on September 2, 2004 at 10:09 am
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