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...other gamely fielding questions from an angry crowd on topics from evolution—“It’s against the Bible, and it doesn’t conform to science as we know it”—to the crowd’s favorite, homosexuality??“the vile affection of a reprobate mind.” The young woman handing out fliers admitted to me that she didn’t particularly enjoy all the negativity and rejection, but that “when you love someone, you will do anything...
...United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, to sack global health director Anne Peterson over her marginal support of condom usage, according to a Boston Globe investigative report last month. Dobson, known for heartily endorsing the corporal punishment of children and for once declaring, “homosexuality??will destroy the Earth,” is only one of several evangelicals who have forced the government’s hand on aid and welfare questions...
...intravenous drug users—a stigmatizing policy which was inconsistent with their mission of reducing HIV transmission to the maximum extent possible. We commend the CDC’s new initiative for advancing the important process of dissociating this lethal infection, which affects such a diverse population, from homosexuality??with which it is hardly fully coincident. Although the CDC estimated that 18,000 adults and adolescents diagnosed with AIDS in 2004 were exposed to HIV via male-to-male sexual contact, they also estimated that a substantial 13,000 others had contracted the virus via heterosexual behavior...
...pioneer in the field, Dr. Simon LeVay, told Newsweek Magazine in 1992 that he felt “as a gay man, if I didn’t find anything, I would give up a scientific career altogether.” This myopic lust for a genetic explanation of homosexuality??while based on genuinely benevolent intentions—overlooks the most important cultural means of improving homosexuals’ status in society, and could even be disastrous for the very group that the research intends to benefit. As Americans have witnessed in the incessant questioning of Darwinian evolution...
...Arabia, one of the organizers of the event, who is affiliated with Northeastern University Campus Against War and Racism. Although some of the protesters specifically criticized the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on homosexuality??an important aspect of the legal argument against the Solomon Amendment—most focused on a broader frustration with the U.S.’s involvement in Iraq. “I’m here to oppose the U.S. war in Iraq and the recruiting of young...