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Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 years, 7 months agoLast week, President Bush nominated James W. Holsinger to become the next Surgeon General of the United States. But as BarbinMD points out, Holsinger's nomination to be "America's doctor" is troubling. He has a long history of prejudice toward gays and lesbians.
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TechnologyExpert
June 1, 2007, 3:59 p.m.Some examples:
- Holsinger founded Hope Springs Community Church, which "ministers to people who no longer wish to be gay or lesbian." Holsinger said that he sees homosexuality as "an issue not of orientation but of lifestyle." [Lexington Herald-Leader, 6/1/07]
- In serving on the United Methodist Judicial Council â;; the "court" that resolves "disputes involving church doctrine and policies in the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination" â;; Holsinger "opposed a decision to allow a practicing lesbian to be an associate pastor, and he supported a pastor who would not permit an openly gay man to join the church." [Lexington Herald-Leader, 6/1/07]
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RickyDawkins
June 1, 2007, 4:26 p.m.I still can't get over the Cheney's. Their daughter is a lesbian, but they condemn all gays, and refuse to comment on their daughter, because, "it's a family matter".
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not2needy
June 1, 2007, 4:39 p.m.Well that should be another feather in Bushies old cap. He just never knows when to stop, from one extreme (Taggard) to another.
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Amazing1
June 1, 2007, 4:54 p.m.I am no longer surprised at anything that comes out of the mouth of the idiot in the oval oriface. The only thing that would shock me at this point is if he should actually say something that made sense and didn't sound as if he were an ignorant frat boy.
Lordy, lordy. Next we'll have someone in charge of NASA who thinks the world is only 6,000 years old and that Intelligent Design is the best theory yet.
Or maybe someone for FEMA who thinks all rubber rafts should be punctured to provide ventilation.
Or someone for Housing and Urban development who wants to mail kits to the homeless so they can construct mud huts.
AAGGGHH!
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ind06
June 1, 2007, 5:03 p.m.Well, the President is a fundamentalist, so this really isn't all that shocking. Just another step on the fundy's publicly stated course to erase all boundaries between church and state. I doubt the Netscape censor bot would allow me to express my true feelings.
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walden3
June 1, 2007, 5:32 p.m.beautiful. why does this 28 percenter insist on sticking his infer in the eye of people. he should jsut lay low like the dumb lame duck that he is. i've seen some reports that make me think he's really totally lost his mind.
"Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated "I am the president!" He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of "our country's destiny."
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/31/bush-wild-e...
who knows if it's true.
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jordan11
June 1, 2007, 5:40 p.m.One more freak fundamentalist inserted to play havoc on our country. I feel sooooo sorry for whoever has to clean up the crap they leave behind.
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not2needy
June 1, 2007, 6:40 p.m.I have said this on a previous thread but it bears repeating, based on tanglang's comment that no animal is born gay.
Educate yourself tanglang, it is a known fact that non-human animals are sometimes gay. There are documented facts that supports this, if you want the link i will provide it for you.
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not2needy
June 1, 2007, 6:47 p.m.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_a...
Here is one link that supports the fact that there is homosexual non-human animals, just google it, there are a multitude of sites that supports this fact.
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agentX
June 1, 2007, 11:05 p.m.What is his angle with this decision? Does he really think the current Congress is like the last Congress? This ain't gonna fly. This isn't the old days of Matthew Sheppard.
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canadianrancher57
June 1, 2007, 11:43 p.m.Boy I don't know how to break this to everyone but in nature they may not be gay but when a cow comes in heat and a bull is not present another cow will try to breed the cow in heat, nothing happens but the idea is there, the same can be said when you introduce a new bull in with your herd bulls, if the new bull is small and not argessive they will try to breed him. Sorry to present these facts but it happens.
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harriermech
June 2, 2007, 1:23 a.m.Why is it that someone's life style choice is forced on the rest of society? If a guy wants to let some other guy do him in the butt I shouldn't have to be forced to accept it as normal. If I chose to not accept it then I am the outcast and a bigot but the sick o that is doing it is the normal one. The only time it is alright to be gay is if it is two hot women and at no other time is it ok. This being politically correct is the worst thing our society has ever tried to do. We are making our county out to be a bunch of pansies.
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Gatsby
June 2, 2007, 1:45 a.m.I'll preface this post by saying that I detest everything George Bush and his White House thugs stand for. They have ruined this country I live in and love and made us the laughing stock of the entire world. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
But regarding this appointment of surgeon general, I say great. With his every action this self-serving idiot is driving the sword deeper into the body of the Republican party. At the end of his term there won't be much left of it. Let him make these assenine appointments. The damage he's already done is so great a little more probably won't make much difference. The only good thing he's done as president is successfully killed the chances of anyone else in the Bush family being elected to anything. For that he is to be congratulated. And the spainless Republicans have stood silently by and let him kill their chances of re-election in 2008. Hooray, Bushy baby, go for it.
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HMMace
June 2, 2007, 6:03 a.m.The catholic chirch with all its smarts--made a place for "Gays"--Its called "Priest-& Nun"
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TomChicago
June 2, 2007, 6:09 a.m.Let's see if the good doctor will stand by his deny-and-repress position when the confirmation hearings start. Science and a scientific mind should run the Surgeon General's office.
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tryingtofindmyway
June 2, 2007, 7:16 a.m.GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I am SICK and TIRED of every person who doesn't believe in the legitimacy and naturalism of homosexuality being labled as a HOMOPHOBE. GET the $#%# over yourselves gay rights activists!!! Just because people don't see things your way doesn't mean they are scared of you or your cause. I don't care which side of the issue you take, people who don't support gay marriages or who believe that homosexuality is wrong as a result of religious beliefs are not homophobes. That has to be the most misused lable in this country. (Closely followed by "racist.") Call someone anti-homosexuality, or pro-heterosexual lifestyles, but the term "homophobe" is a ridiculous and unmitigated disgrace to the English language.
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zman
June 2, 2007, 7:30 a.m.He's not a "decider", he's a divider. This President has turned out to be exactly what America did not need on so many fronts. Pathetic is the legacy of this Administration.
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mesodude
June 2, 2007, 8:33 a.m.Correction: The NARROW definition of homophobia is fear of homosexuals.
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tryingtofindmyway
June 2, 2007, 8:11 a.m.Thank you alfalfa, some people seem to think that anyone who doesn't buy into the homo-sexual agenda is afraid of gays. They're not interested in the truth, just in slapping on an ill-concieved lable to make the opposition sound backwards and bigoted. That's what happens when they run out of logical arguments.
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slate
June 2, 2007, 8:44 a.m.I don't have a right wing view of this topic but a human view.
My belief on the matter is humans are born with the propensity to be either heterosexual or homosexual and have little choice in the matter. For the life of me I don't understand why Bush would chose yet another person that would give the left more gas to throw on fire of dislike for him and Christianity.
I was born heterosexual and don't understand how anyone could be attracted to the same sex, but that isn't a thing I have the right to judge them for. All I ever ask is for people of either stripe not push their own sexuality agenda on others.
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slate
June 2, 2007, 9:10 a.m.I've known married couples that are church going Bible thumping Christians that have gay children most of my life. What does this imply that they taught their child to be gay? Certainly not; because people are just who they are. Any parent with more than one child raised in the same family environment knows how different their personalities are. For the reasons of procreation is the reason there for heterosexuality being the way of life but: seeing how a single male or female can raise a healthy child there seems to be no reason that a gay couple can't do the same. In the end, it's more about being raised in a loving environment than anything else. How many times have we seem that most humans that go to commit heinous crimes were raised in a 'sick' unloving family unit, both with single or 'conventional' family units?
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