> ....because I have a hissy fit about the alternatives.


So Shrub is in Uganda yesterday gassing off about their miracle program
w/ AIDS prevention & the reason he is in Uganda is because the Uganda
program, as interpreted by Planned Parenthood, is one of abstinence
before marriage and downplays the use of condoms and therefore fits in
with the agenda of the conservative religious right that Shrub considers
his constituency (domestic policy dictating foreign policy)... the
administration wants the funding that goes to AIDS in Africa to go
through faith-based NGO's (and not through the established
infrastructure of any secular organization that counsels the use of
condoms or -- as per the "gag" rule -- advises on the alternative of
abortions of any sort -- so if you do not accept Jesus Christ into your
life you cannot be saved from wasting away with AIDS? Where is the
separation of church and medicine?) and therefore the idea is, I
suppose, that there will be strong fathers in Africa that will teach
their children to avoid sex before marriage? Not a bad idea and I'm for
it. How much does a strong father cost? Where were the strong fathers
before now? Seems to me a lot of the fathers have been out busy shooting
and hacking each other up, like in Rwanda (a little ways south of
Uganda). And where are the mothers in all of this? The faith based
initiative in Rwanda as I see it is like when the pastors report on the
families cowering in their churches. I suppose death by machete is an
AIDS prevention measure. What we need is to send Shrub's & Tenet's bank
account numbers to the folks in Nigeria and see what sort of prevention
that encourages.

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