I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
UPDATE: Representative Jim McDermott (D-WA) had some choice words in support of the cause, and there is good news concerning the HIV travel ban.
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This morning AIDS activists from all across the northeastern U.S. effectively shut down the Capitol rotunda around 10 a.m. EST while protesting the Obama Administration's lack of action on the global AIDS crisis. 15 women and 11 men chained themselves together, and chanted "clean needles save lives," shocking visitors and prompting arrests. Capitol police had arrested everyone by 10:45. From the press release:
The activists decried the Obama administration’s failure to make good on a range of AIDS campaign promises including his pledge: to lift the federal ban on funding syringe exchange, to fully fund lifesaving global AIDS programs, and to fully fund AIDS housing programs in this year’s budget. The activists demanded Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Congressional leadership fix President Obama’s flawed budget proposal.
“HIV is not in recession,” said Omolola Adele-Oso of DC Fights Back. “So why are we bailing out the bankers with $9 trillion, but breaking promises to fund life-saving AIDS programs in the US and around the world at a fraction of that cost?”
This is how it's done. 26 people got arrested in an effort to call attention to the continued marginalization and passive genocide of our brothers and sisters with HIV/AIDS.
The activists also denounced the administration’s failure to lift the ban on syringe exchange funding. “Thousands of people have died in the past decade because clean syringes aren’t available,” said Jose De Marco, an HIV+ member of ACT UP Philadelphia and Proyecto Sol Filadelphia. “President Obama, who many of us worked to elect, promised to follow the science and lift the federal funding ban on needle exchange, but his budget explicitly included the ban. Now it’s up to Congress to show real courage where the President has not.” (emphasis not included in original)
These folks came from Health GAP, Housing Works, DC Fights Back, and ACT UP Philadelphia. Amanda Hess at the Washington City Paper got details on the legal support available to the group.
A call to the D.C. Housing Works offices found all three regular staff members currently tied-up in the legal scuffle. Intern Summer Sterling, who is “just here for the summer,” was on-hand to answer the phones. Sterling confirmed that Larry Bryant, who serves as a co-chair of DC Fights Back and a National Field Organizer for Housing Works, was under arrest; two other Housing Works employees were busy monitoring the process and handling media inquiries. Though Sterling wouldn’t comment on how involved she was in the planning of the protest, she did say that she “one-hundred-percent expected [the activists] to be arrested.”
Housing Works’ Christine Campbell, who had accompanied the activists to the protests, confirmed that at least four locals were among the 26 arrested activists. She, too, registered little surprise with the Capitol Police reaction. “We took that risk,” she said. “We knew we were going to be chaining ourselves together in the Capitol, so.”
Campbell says that the arrest “went very smoothly”—especially after police realized that Campbell was on-hand as “legal support for the group.” At that point, Capitol Police cleared the rotunda, issued a warning to the protesters, and then arrested them.
According to Jessica Brady at Roll Call, the Rotunda remained restricted during the early eleven o'clock hour; tour groups were being diverted around it, and Capitol police sent out an alert at 10:35 a.m. advising all staff to avoid the area.
Not only has the Obama administration spat on these AIDS-related campaign promises, travel restrictions on those with HIV STILL have yet to be lifted despite the change in federal law. We know President Obama is a coward, and that the Dems are just as spineless. SHAME ON THEM!
**UPDATE: HIV TRAVEL BAN REPORTED TO BE LIFTED BY THE END OF THIS YEAR. Details below the fold.**
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to hold a session for mark-up of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee budget this afternoon, followed by a floor vote. QUICKLY call your Senator's office and tell them to VOTE TO UPHOLD PEPFAR AND SUPPORT THE GLOBAL AIDS FUND!! Call 202-224-3121 and ask to be put through to your Senator's office.
Rick "Hawaiian Shirt" Warren can get his congregation to donate money to burn condoms and persecute gay men in Uganda, courtesy of his BFF "Pastor" Joe Ita at Ukpabio's Liberty Gospel Church, but Congress and the Obama Administration can't manage to carry out their promises to fight AIDS? WTF?
Rep. Jim McDermott's response below the fold, along with some good news. This man deserves our gratitude.
Gov. Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature are coming to grips with a $21 billion-with-a-B budget deficit. Since Californians soundly rejected initiatives in a special election last week that would have raised taxes and redirected funds, draconian measures are being proposed for closing the budget deficit.
[T]he Los Angeles County Commission on HIV issued an alert objecting to possible elimination of a $96-million AIDS program that provides help to 35,000 patients.
On May 21, 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger's administration released tentative plans for $5.5 billion in new cuts to health and human service programs. These plans include severe cuts to HIV services.
Although the formal proposal is not expected to be released until May 26th, preliminary reports indicate that the Governor plans to eliminate all state general fund support to the Office of AIDS. Removing general fund support to the State Office of AIDS would eliminate over $160 million in support for services such as:
• AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP),
• HIV counseling and testing,
• HIV education and prevention,
• Early Intervention Programs (EIPs),
• Therapeutic Monitoring Program (TMP)
• HIV surveillance,
• Home and community based care programs,
• Housing programs, and
• CARE/Health Insurance Premium Payments (CARE/HIPP)
These cuts further jeopardize direct services for Californians living with HIV because they remove the Office of AIDS' ability to meet the federal government's fiscal requirements. These requirements [variously called "Maintenance of Effort (MOE)" and/or "matching"] mandate that the State contribute a portion of its funds to be eligible for federal funding.
The Governor's plan would result in the State losing a portion, if not all, of its federal Ryan White HIV Program and CDC grants. The cuts would also impact local jurisdictions: without surveillance, the HIV case reports upon which local Ryan White grants are based would not be reported. Additionally, the State Office of AIDS currently funds many local EIPs, home and community based care programs.
If the Governor ultimately includes this plan in a formal proposal and the Legislature approves the proposal, Californians living with HIV/AIDS will no longer have access to many life sustaining programs and services, including ADAP!
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation has chimed in, beginning their press release...
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation is adamantly opposed to the draconian cuts to health and human service programs proposed today by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that would risk the lives of thousands of Californians.
The governor's tentative plan to remove all general fund support to the state Office of AIDS would jeopardize more than $150 million in federal matching funds that the state receives through grants from the Ryan White Program and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a result, 35,000 California residents would lose access to their HIV medications because the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) would cease to exist.
"This is the worst possible time to take support away from the most vulnerable Californians," said Judith Auerbach, Ph.D., vice president for Science and Public Policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. "Balancing the budget on the backs of those at greatest risk threatens to reverse all progress made against the HIV/AIDS epidemic over the past two decades." ...
Yup, pretty much.
If you're a Californian, you might want to select the image of the Los Angeles County Commission On HIV Brief above -- there's a take action step to stop this budget cut from occurring...or at the very least not cutting the program so much that the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) is completely decimated.
That's the name of Lisa Derrick's post over at La Figa, and it's no understatement.
Let's talk about your BFF and partner in the fight on AIDS in Africa, Martin Ssempa who has appeared on stage at Saddleback Church twice and who moved your wife to tears as she declared
You are my brother, Martin, and I love you.
Ssempa has burned condoms in the name of Jesus, called on newspapers to publish the names of known homosexuals and urged the imprisonment of gays. And Ssempa is hugely crazy, one of the many evangelized African pastors dangerously obsessed with witchcraft.
Here's another quote from exorcism-performing Ssempa, who was interviewed by the author of The Invisible Cure: Why We're Losing The Fight Against AIDS In Africa, Dr. Helen Epstein:
that Satan worshipers hold meetings under Lake Victoria, where they are promised riches in exchange for human blood, which they collect by staging car accidents and kidnappings.
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While on the subject of Rick Warren, a video has surfaced with him bleating more insane anti-gay bigotry. The fundies at CBN are touting it:
"There are about 2% of Americans who are homosexual or gay and lesbian people. We should not let 2% of the population change the definition of marriage."
"This is not even just a Christian issue. It's a humanitarian and human issue."
I'm glad Magic stood up and said something about the pea-brains in Minnesota, radio host Chris Baker and his sidekick Langdon Perry, who claimed that the NBA legend faked the fact that he is HIV positive.
During the October 8 broadcast of KTLK's The Chris Baker Show, Perry asked: "What about diseases that are eminently treatable and you can live with for a long, long time quite healthily if you just get some basic drugs?" Baker interjected, "like Magic Johnson," to which Perry replied, "Like Magic with his faked AIDS." After Baker asked, "You think Magic faked AIDS for sympathy?" Perry stated, "I'm convinced that Magic faked AIDS." Baker replied, "Yeah, me too." Perry added: "It falls apart when you get into motivation. I'm not sure why, but I'm pretty sure he faked AIDS. ... Cause he's the only cured AIDS guy ever."
"I am extremely disappointed in KTLK in Minneapolis. I am outraged that Chris Baker and Langdon Perry would minimize such a serious and deadly issue. Millions are dying from HIV/AIDS and the fact that they would make jokes about my status is unbelievable," Johnson said. "Chris, Langdon and KTLK should use their power in a more positive light by encouraging people to get tested for this disease instead of making up such ridiculous lies."
The ignorance of Baker has been hard to keep up with this week.
(UPDATE: Manhunt co-founder Jonathan Crutchley donated the personal max ($2300) to John McCain's campaign. Yet another deluded gay Republican. The question is, will McCain give the check back when news gets out about the dough coming from, as Andy calls it "America's largest gay sex hook-up website"? More at JMG and Towleroad.)
Or more accurately, gay male culture. There's nothing like opening the Pandora's box of the online gay cruising world. Out Magazine features an article by Michael Joseph Gross, Has Manhunt Destroyed Gay Culture?, that takes on the thorny subject of the subculture of men meeting men online for casual sex (how sub a culture is anybody's guess).
This wealth of information makes Manhunt seem the most efficient place for its target customers to find sex, because the site's comprehensive search function can produce in seconds a list of, say, brown-eyed bottoms within one mile of your zip code wanting to get it on "Right Now!"
Manhunt's apparent efficiency owes even more to its staggering number of members. The site's other advertising tag line, "If he's out there, he is on here," is only a slight exaggeration. In the United States, Manhunt now has nearly 1 million members, and the site receives more than 400,000 unique visitors per month. If you are among its target customers -- younger, hotter, and richer than average gay men in big cities -- Manhunt is the club that the proverbial everyone (meaning, the guys you've always fantasized about) belongs to.
Who knows? You might even find a boyfriend there. If it's true -- and everybody says it's true -- that sex is the gay handshake, then one of these days maybe you'll hit the jackpot. Thus, even many of the most overbearingly erotic profiles also haltingly express a dream of emotional connection. The headline of one man's ad, next to a big close-up of his butt, asks, "Are you The One?"
In our less-than-sex-positive culture, the exploration of any kind sexuality is often frowned upon, be it hetero or homo, so the focus on gay men and the online pickup scene by a gay publication is worth exploring. However, we all know it comes at a price because of the propensity of the bible-beaters to use one snapshot of gay men and sex to paint the entire community as an orgy of uncontrolled, diseased desire, even though hooking up for sex is hardly a gay thing.
We haven't featured a post about the former fundamentalist, recloseted gay man with AIDS (he contracted HIV from years of unsafe sex in bathhouses) who hails from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego, CA. James Hartline, the failed City Council candidate has been well-covered here on the Blend for his mind-boggling anti-gay screeds on gay rodeos, San Diego Pride (multiple times), Starbucks, and even the equally insane Lou Sheldon.
This time he's bleating about the Dyke March held in his area. From the description, you'd think there was a gang of lesbians running in the streets snatching up children. From the James Hartline Report - "Lesbians Terrorize San Diego Community During Obscene Political Event."
In a scene that actually provides a rare and horrifying glimpse into the real world of lesbian politics, a large group of radical lesbian activists, some carrying signs with very obscene language, marched through a major public street in San Diego, California on Saturday, July 26, 2008. Calling itself San Diego Dyke March, the group of approximately 300 lesbians so disturbed a number of residents in the community of North Park, that one fearful churchgoer who resides in the area has alleged that a number of other church members were forced to keep their children indoors to avoid being exposed to the disgusting activities of the women. During the march, one shirtless woman exposed her bare chest. Photographs from the Dyke March show that this woman had had her breast surgically removed. During the march this same shirtless woman carried a sign that read, "I'm A Dyke. Ask Me How."
Other signs that these women carried during the public march included one that read "Vagina 100% Organic."
...Reports of parents who were forced to keep their kids off the streets so that they would not be exposed to these lesbians carrying obscene signs should give voters a prophetic look into where the gay movement wants to take California. It is a nightmarish vision that should leave parents fearfully involved in efforts to stop the madness of same-sex marriages which were recently forced upon Californians via the activist California Supreme Court. If such a large group of politically active lesbians are willing to carry obscene signs down a public street with small children present, where do California voters think these women will be taking society if no legal restraints are put on such behaviors in the future?
More unbelievable frothing at the mouth is below the fold.
I posted my thoughts about the CNN's two-part, six hour Black in America special over the weekend ("CNN does Black in America 101"). It re-aired several times over the weekend. One of the major issues I had with the program, since a good deal of time was spent on the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS in the community, was the complete invisibility about what it is like to be black and gay in America. It takes a lot of effort to dance around the issue, but CNN did it. More below the fold.
Wow - talk about unhinged. Of course Washington Times columnist Wes Pruden ignores the predominance of heterosexual transmission of AIDS in third world countries, or the low rate of AIDS in the lesbian population, but who's paying any attention to actual facts? (Media Matters):
In a June 17 Washington Times column in which he downplayed global climate change by comparing it to other perceived "terrors" that "subsided, done in by reality," Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden wrote of the AIDS virus: "We were all supposed to be dead now, done in by AIDS, the gift of the gays." Pruden continued: "After that it was SARS, bequeathed to the world by China. Then it was avian flu, which, to be fair to the alarmists, did in fact result in the deaths of millions. The millions were all chickens, true, but chickens have feelings, too. You could ask the folks at PETA."
Contrary to Pruden's suggestion, AIDS has in fact killed millions. In its December 2007 "AIDS epidemic update," the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS estimated that there were 2.1 million AIDS-related deaths worldwide in 2007. According to a chart included in the report, at least 1 million people are estimated to have died from AIDS-related illnesses every year since 1997 and at least 2 million every year since 2003.
Since the late 1980s, Pruden has repeatedly downplayed HIV/AIDS, asserting, even as recently as 2005, that "after all these years AIDS remains a disease almost altogether of homosexuals and drug addicts and the unfortunate women who hang out with them."
There are natural disasters and man-made disasters. There are those
who look upon the aftermath of disaster and see things as they should be. We
call them conservatives.
As I write this, the seeds of disaster and an aftermath of
Katrina-like proportions have been and are being sown in the shadow of
the nation's capitol, by a conservative philosophy that-as a matter of
principle and policy-neither prepares for or prevents disaster, nor
provides relief in its aftermath And when disaster befalls those most
vulnerable to its ravages, conservative philosophy declares disaster
the fault of and its consequences deserved by those least able to
defend themselves against either.
When disaster strikes Washington, D.C.-whether in the form of a
disease outbreak, a dirty bomb, or another terrorist attack-it will be
the fault of who cannot get themselves out of harm's way;and not the fault of conservative philosophy that makes disaster all but inevitable.
This is too darn great not to share. Ryan White's former attorneys published a letter to the editor in the Lafayette Journal and Courier responding to Mike Huckabee's outrageous statements about quarantining AIDS patients. I don't really need to add anything to this one; they speak pretty bluntly... (Hat tip to faithful reader John.)
The honcho of Americans for Truth for Homosexuality, Peter LaBarbera, having completed his fetish Folsum film fest at the National Press Club, turns his attention to an ad that ran in the Washington Blade for the Crew Club in D.C. adjacent to one for World AIDS Day.
Gee, is he stuck in some sort of time warp? AIDS is spread in many ways other than "gay" sex. The Peter attempts a butt-covering (!) maneuver by acknowledging that some of the men engaging in unsafe sex don't identify as gay. Rebecca Armendariz, online editor at the Blade:
Whoa, excuse me, Peter? HIV/AIDS in America and all around the world is an EPIDEMIC that kills scores of people each year. Are you and Mike Huckabee really so trapped in the early 1980s as to think that it's still a disease spread only through gay male sex? It appears so.
If people want to have anonymous sex, so be it. Just because some gay people choose this kind of sex life doesn't mean straight people don't choose it, too. And then there are those who have sex in their own bedrooms. And then there are those who pick up a date at a bar and go home with them to THAT person's bedroom. People have sex. I hope that when they have sex, they use protection. The fact that LaBarbera obsesses over how, why and where people are gettin' down, frankly, creeps me out.
Ryan White, the boy in Indiana who faced unbelievable discrimination after contracting HIV in 1984 during a transfusion (and lost his battle with AIDS in 1990), was a compelling and convincing public figure who helped proved by being a visible figure that AIDS was not in fact transmitted by casual contact.
Ryan's mother, Jeanne White-Ginder, was incensed by the ignorance of GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's defense of his ridiculous claim in 1992 that AIDS patients should have been isolated from the public, and that the public was unaware of how the virus was spread. (CBS):
"The former Arkansas governor and GOP front-runner in the important Iowa caucuses said Sunday that he stood by the comments.
That has infuriated Jeanne White-Ginder, who said: "It's so alarming to me." In a telephone interview Monday with The Associated Press from her home in Leesburg, Fla., she said: "It's very important to me that we don't live in the darkness" when people thought AIDS was transmitted through casual contact, such as by "kissing, tears, sweat and saliva."
"We have to treat this disease like a disease, and like Ryan always said, not like a dirty word," she said.
Yesterday Human Rights Campaign and the AIDS Institute sent a letter to Huckabee requesting a meeting with meet with White-Ginder. The text of the letter is below the fold.
[UPDATE from RUSS: Huck's on Fox News Sunday trying to defend his statements. Said that in late 80s and early 90s we didn't know a whole lot about AIDS. Chris Wallace actually called him on it and stated that in 1985 we knew it wasn't "casually transmittable". Huck responded that a woman testified in 1991 that she got AIDS from her dentist. Huck continues that he was being generic, that our AIDS policies in back in the day were more concerned with political correctness than epidemiological realities.]
From the rapist/murderer-releasing Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor who is surging in the polls, a view into his mindset (and "Christian" thinking) about AIDS. This is from a questionnaire back in 1992 during a senate race:
"If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague. It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents."
He also didn't feel any more funding was necessary, even given his above hysteria.
"In light of the extraordinary funds already being given for AIDS research, it does not seem that additional federal spending can be justified," Huckabee wrote. "An alternative would be to request that multimillionaire celebrities, such as Elizabeth Taylor (,) Madonna and others who are pushing for more AIDS funding be encouraged to give out of their own personal treasuries increased amounts for AIDS research."
Now, you wonder what Huck thinks about his statements today. As usual, he makes sh*t up that isn't true. He tries to cite that no one knew about how HIV was transmitted at the time.
Huckabee said in a prepared statement released by his campaign Saturday afternoon that he called for quarantine when there was a lot of confusion about how AIDS is spread. He said he wanted at the time to follow traditional medical practices used for dealing with tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
"We now know that the virus that causes AIDS is spread differently, with a lower level of contact than with TB," Huckabee said. "But looking back almost 20 years, my concern was the uncertain risk to the general population - if we got it wrong, many people would die needlessly. My concern was safety first, political correctness last."
When Huckabee wrote his answers in 1992, it was common knowledge that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact.... The nation had an increased awareness of AIDS at the time because pro basketball star Magic Johnson had recently disclosed he carried the virus responsible for it. Johnson retired but returned to the NBA briefly during the 1995-96 season.
Sigh. Huckabee also said this in the questionnaire -- someone should ask if he still believes this:
"I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle, and we now know it can pose a dangerous public health risk."
Will the MSM give him a pass? Do you think any of his rivals will dare to blast him on this, lest it be interpreted as defending the homos?
Mad Professah is a big supporter of the organization Immigration Equality which keeps a close eye on how U.S. immigration law affects LGBT and HIV+ individuals and immigrants. Just a couple weeks ago I blogged about how China had announced that they were considering changing their ban on travel to that country by HIV+ individuals. At that time I mentioned that this would make China's policy more humane than U.S. immigration policy. I didn't realize then that the U.S. and China are currently on a list of only thirteen countries (Iraq, China, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Sudan, Qatar, Brunei, Oman, Moldova, Russia, Armenia, and South Korea) that have travel and immigration bans on people living with HIV or AIDS.
Thanks toTowleroad comes the news that the Bush administration is in the process of revising the current travel ban also, but this time they want to make it worse! The always indispensable Gay City News has an article ("A Bush Double-Cross on HIV Travel Ban") about the proposed regulation change which is currently open for public comment until December 6th. The regulation is issued by the Department of Homeland Security entitled "Issuance of a Visa and Authorization for Temporary Admission Into the United States for Certain Nonimmigrant Aliens Infected With HIV" and numbered USCBP-2007-0084-0001.
Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera says he shares Pastor Warren's desire to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS but wonders what solutions a politician who is an ardent supporter of the homosexual agenda has to offer in combating the disease. "He says that he's a co-belligerent with people who he disagrees with on other issues," notes LaBarbera, "[so] I guess the question would be: does he disagree strongly with Hillary Clinton's approach to homosexuality and even the AIDS crisis?"
Although he admits he is skeptical of what solutions a defender of the homosexual lifestyle like Clinton has to offer churches for fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis, the activist is calling on Warren and Clinton to use the upcoming summit to tackle the problem of homosexual promiscuity, which often results in HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
"We have homosexual bath houses operating in major cities across this nation," LaBarbera notes. "These are places where men go for anonymous sexual liaisons with other men. They're bringing the HIV virus back to innocent women, because some of these men do not identify as 'gay' and they're even married. So what about that aspect of the AIDS crisis?"
So let me get this "straight." He's encouraging Sen. Clinton and Pastor Warren to comment on gay promiscuity, but he's "skeptical of what solutions a defender of the homosexual lifestyle like Clinton has to offer churches for fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis," and then turns around again and implies he wants them to talk about bath houses and adultery -- even though he just said he probably wouldn't like what they'd say about it.
My head is spinning.
Even for OneNewsNow, this seems like a particularly pointless piece to waste server "ink" on. The piece reads to me as if it were contrived, and just rehashes their belief that "homosexuality is immoral" without adding any significant new content or perspective -- we've heard this one note song from Peter LaBarbera and OneNewsNow before.
To date, only Barack Obama and John Edwards have publicly released comprehensive national strategies to combat HIV/AIDS in the United States. Black AIDS Institute has analyzedEdwards' plan not not Obama's plan (which oddly enough doesn't seem to be easily found on his website). The Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton has not released a plan yet and as the days continue this is startingto look increasingly curious, especially for a candidate so closely linked with health care issues.
Don't you think that every Presidential candidate should have a National AIDS Strategy? Take the poll now!
I'm doing an installation at the new LGBT Center on Halsted here in Chicago for World AIDS Day, Dec. 1. I'm looking for images (preferably snapshots) of people who have passed away from HIV/AIDS for inclusion in a large-scale memorial work. If you have a photo of a friend or loved one lost to HIV/AIDS, or if you know someone who does, please get in touch. Feel free to forward this message as well. Thanks,
Fingers were being pointed at religious extremists on Sunday after a fight outside an exhibition that portrays Jesus as gay.
The Ecce Homo photo exhibition, by Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin, has been causing controversy ever since it was first unveiled a decade ago. In Jönköping on Sunday, protests against the exhibition turned violent.
A group of youngsters tried to set fire to a poster on the wall of Jönköping Kulturhuset, where the exhibition was being held. When staff tried to stop them a fight broke out.
A melee broke out in Sweden outside a photography exhibit depicting Jesus as a homosexual.
Artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin created the Ecce Homo exhibit 10 years ago, and it has been controversial ever since.
On Sunday, a group of young people tried to set fire to a poster at the Jonkoping Kulturhuset, The Local reported.
Tell me again about Muslims rioting over cartoons. Sure, nobody was killed in this reaction, but tell me there wouldn't be violence if an exhibit like this came to the U.S. (Maybe even accompanied by a performance of Corpus Christi.
(Fair warning. There's a "Jesus-with-a-penis" in the slideshow after the jump.)
New research led by Abigail Norris Turner of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of Epidemiology will be published in the August 20th, 2007 issue of AIDSonline. The researches found an appallingly high rate of women became HIV positive, 210 out of 4417 (4.75%) over a median of 23 months, and found no lowered risk attributable to the circumcision status of her primary sex partner.
More at 
We haven't featured a post about the former fundamentalist, recloseted gay man with AIDS (he contracted HIV from years of unsafe sex in bathhouses) who hails from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego, CA. James Hartline, the failed 
