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According to USA Today, the U.S. is now forcing AIDS groups to sign a "No Ho" pledge saying that they oppose prostitution and sex trafficking if they want federal funds.
"It's ideological blackmail. It's like a loyalty oath," Paul Zeitz of the Global AIDS Alliance told USA Today. "No one endorses prostitution and sex-trafficking. We cannot stop AIDS if we lose the trust of people most at risk of HIV infection and undermine effective, lifesaving programs."
First, it is obvious to thinking people that these AIDS groups are not for prostitution. Second, the rich, prep school daddies boy, spoiled brats that populate the Bush Administration act as if prostitution is just one more bad career choice for women who don't want to work at real jobs. They don't seem to understand that most women get trapped in the world's oldest profession because of desperation. See, unlike Bush, their daddies weren't President. They did not get into great schools with bad grades, nor did they get to booze up until the age of 40 while Daddy got them sweet business deals that would ultimately fail.
No, most of these unfortunate women are in the awful position of selling their bodies for basic survival. If Bush really cared about these women, he would help pay for job training, healthcare, child day care and education grants to give them a real opportunity to succeed.
Instead, he makes AIDS groups sign absurd, puritancial pledges designed to future margnalize these outcasts. Bush and his cronies really don't get how difficult it is to make it as a single women with children in a developing country. Instead of giving people a hand, Bush & Friends are more likely to offer a kick in the teeth. This new pledge is a disgrace and an embarrassment for America. It is sad that Bush's America only offers her compassion with the cruelest strings attached.
2 Comments:
The Bush people are sick fuckers
posted by Anonymous, at
6/13/2005 9:44 AM
As a Christian, I am so appalled at the millions of people just like Bush who stand in self-righteous judgment of all those with whom they disagree, in blatant opposition to even the most basic teachings of Jesus. If Mr. (I will not call him president) Bush were really a Christian, he would show the same mercy and compassion on prostitutes, junkies and criminals as Jesus did. Yet another right-wing religious zealot who twists sound doctrine into hate-filled rhetoric.
posted by Anonymous, at
3/06/2008 5:16 PM
