They got stomped 20 years ago, when they first began deliberating ways to try to contain AIDS. The gay community raised hell, demanding that they not be "quarantined" or "marked". The gays won, and we've seen how well that strategy worked out.
More than that, CDC has subsequently collaborated with GLSEN and other gay orgs to introduce gay propaganda and indoctrination into schools under the rubric of sex-education initiatives, in the course of which gay sexual techniques are featured prominently (and therefore explicitly endorsed by the CDC and the cooperating school system).
Lentulusgracchus, I just don't understand how liberals can reconcile such contradictory views in their heads. Do they operate entirely on feelings? Seriously, I just can't imagine how they think.
Examples:
Animals deserve protection and must be treated humanely because all life is valuable, yet unborn babies only have value if the mother chooses to keep them--otherwise, they can be executed at will.
Animals shouldn't be raised simply to harvest them for their fur, yet unborn babies should be harvested for their tissues, like stem cells.
Cigarettes must be eliminated because smoking causes death and disease, yet practicing sodomy is a basic human right.
The price of gasoline must be kept inexpensive, yet new refineries must NOT be built or new areas explored for oil due to the potential damage to the ecology.
Individual states should have the right to choose whether or not to support gay marriage, yet a woman's right to abort her baby must not be infringed upon by any state!
The federal budget deficit must be eliminated immediately because it threatens the country's well-being, yet for 40 years the deficit wasn't an issue when we were expanding social programs.
When a federal judge rules the ten commandments must be removed from a courthouse, the "law" must be obeyed, yet laws against gay marriage, even ones with overwelming public support, should be ignored.
The Constitutional "wall" separating church and state prohibits any cooperation between them, yet the government has the right to tell church-operated charities to pay for their members' abortions.
I could go on, but I have a headache!