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New Surgeon-General attacked for opinion on homosexuality
President Bush has nominated a new Surgeon-General and, as usual, liberals wants his scalp because he doesn’t embrace homosexuality as emblematic of all this is good and true in the world.
Dr. James Holsinger wrote in a paper in 1991 that homosexuality is unhealthy and unnatural. Well, when you get into the physical mechanics of it, um yeah, putting that, um, there is not healthy. In addition, two men or two women trying to have sex is unnatural since in fact sex is a procreative act and, by definition, sex between two men or two women is not procreative.
Ah, but for the sheer temerity of once stating what is blindingly obvious, Holsinger is to be tarred and feathered. Oh, and he is to be ridiculed because (snicker, snicker), he used an analogy that compared male and female genitalia to pipe fittings. Geez, people, grow up. It’s an analogy.
Holsinger, 68, presented “The Pathophysiology of Male Homosexuality” in January 1991 to a United Methodist Church’s committee to study homosexuality. (Read the paper here.) The church was then considering changing its view that homosexuality violates Christian teaching, though it ultimately did not do so. Relying on footnotes from mainstream medical publications, Holsinger argued that homosexuality isn’t natural or healthy.
Meanwhile, the pundits are telling Bush that he should pull the nomination: “A confirmation fight is exactly what the administration does not need,” said Republican turncoat David Gergen. Actually, it is exactly what the administration needs. What Bush does not need is to appear to be distancing himself even further from his political base of conservatives, not after everything he’s done to spite conservative principles. And canning another major nominee because of his conservative views on homosexuality would do exactly that.
Let's not forget Jocelyn Elders
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Let’s not forget some other surgeon-generals who truly did have bizarre points of view. In 1994, Jocelyn Elders said,” We must stop this love affair with the fetus.” The same year she suggested that masturbation should be taught in public schools. But the difference between Elder and the Clinton appointee who followed her, David Satcher, is that they were both pro-abortion and pro-homosexuality.
Unfortunately, rather than pursue the truth of what Holsinger said in 1991, the Bush administration is already backtracking and apologizing.
But Holly Babin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Heath and Human Services — the agency that will take the lead on trying to achieve Holsinger’s confirmation — insisted that the paper was by no means reflective of Holsinger’s thinking.
“That paper was a survey of scientific peer-reviewed studies that he was asked to compile by the United Methodist Church, it’s not that he was saying ‘this is what I believe,’” Babin said. “It’s a reflection of the available scientific data from the 1980s. It should be noted that in 1991, homosexuals were banned from the military and several years before that, homosexuality and Haitian nationality were considered risk factors for HIV/AIDS. Over the last 20 years, a clearer understanding of these issues has been achieved.
Such has become the lame-duck Bush administration, once so promising for conservatives who had hoped for much more and now reduced to this.
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Heck, let’s not forget the parentage of Samuel David Cheney.
Posted by Fr. Larry Gearhart on 06/8/07 at 01:56 PM Do-o-o-o-m (recognize the sound of a kid hopping on one foot there?):
Did you watch the RI “marriage equality hearing” on May 16? I need to find a copy of that tape, if not. During that hearing, a DOMA supporter tried to answer a rep’s question about why he thought homosexual marriage was unnatural with an objective physical description, including health hazards, and he was halted with a sort of “Now, now, we don’t need to hear that. This discussion is not about sexual acts” response. As if…
WE’RE crazy, right? Or are we just sexually obsessed? Yeah, that’s it.
Posted by on 06/8/07 at 03:11 PM Did the paper written by Dr Holsinger in 1991 contain any factually incorrect information?
“It’s a reflection of the available scientific data from the 1980s.
How has the available, peer reviewed, scientific data changed from the 1980’s?
Posted by on 06/9/07 at 10:56 PM You’re onto something, Sharon.
The fact remains that it is no more healthy for a man to engage in anal sex now than it was when Holsinger wrote his paper.
This is another case of the intolerant, militant gay thought police foisting their self-serving agenda on everyone else. They ARE what they claim to detest and I give them no credence whatsoever.
Posted by on 06/10/07 at 07:14 AM “Republican turncoat David Gergen”
Thank you Dom.
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