Posted on 07/18/2004 2:32:51 PM PDT by ambrose
Gere attacks Bush over sex education
18/07/2004 - 12:51:59
Hollywood heart-throb Richard Gere launched a scathing attack on American President George W Bush's attitude to sex education in Bangkok on Tuesday.
The passionate actor was speaking at the 15th International Aids conference in the Thai capital, after visiting India the previous week with his younger brother David to highlight the Aids epidemic.
Gere took the opportunity to attack Bush's unrealistic approach to sex education after the president proposed in the 2005 budget that $270m (?216.8m) should be put into funding programs which dissuade teenagers from having sex.
During his time as Governor of Texas from 1995 until 2000, Bush ensured sex education in schools taught that abstinence was the only way to protect teens from sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and pregnancy.
Since Bush's abstinence only policy came into force, Texas' teen pregnancy rate - one of the highest in America - has remained the same, while the amount of STDs amongst Texan youths has risen.
Gere fumes: "The most important issue is this one, to this planet, to this time and place is AIDS. We may well have hopefully another administration in about four months in the US and along with that some sanity on this subject."
Gere added the billions of dollars spent on the Iraq campaign, "probably could have eradicated this illness".
Is it just me, or is this an inherently funny and flawed sentence?
damned gerbil killer!
So what the sam hill does a gay gigolo know about sex education except how to bend over...; he's probably on his way to Phuket.
What an incredible lightweight!
Translation: Schoolchildren should be taught that you can't catch AIDS from a gerbil.
You know why people don't race gerbals? They're too hard to get out of gere.
Does this Hollywood idiot actually believe that the AIDS industry - activist groups, education groups, research groups, etc. - whose bread and butter is all the AIDS gazillions of dollars actually wants AIDS to be eradicated? Is he truly as dim as he sounds?
Just the place for sex education. There is no perversion that you cannot find in Bangkok. Perhaps that's why richie-boy's there. There was a rumor going around of ten-pound hampsters for sale.
Okay, let's get this out of the way early!
http://www.funny.co.uk/jokes/art_52-298-The-Flaming-Gerbil-Legend.html
I don't think stuffing gerbils up your large intestine is a form of "sexual education" that needs teaching.... but it my be correct for a brothel or bar in Bangkok.
,,, gerbil with a coal miner's light BUMP.
If Bush convinces all these teenage girls not to have sex, then where will Gere find any teenagers to have sex with him?
Well he is in Bangcock, where Child prostitution is rampant. Coincidence?
"The most important issue is this one, to this planet, to this time and place is AIDS..."
Not to me it isn't. I'm not in a 'risk group.'
If on the miniscule chance a cure is found and the behavior that allowed it to become an epidemic resumes, a new pathogen will arise. Reason: not religion -- microbiology.
Why is Richard Gere speaking at an AIDS conference?
What does he know about AIDS?
Oh yeah, it's just another Bash America conference disguised as something else. And we're probably footing the bill for it too.
Translation: Bush needs to approve the use of gerbils in public school sexual education classes!
Gere added the billions of dollars spent on the Iraq campaign, "probably could have eradicated this illness".
There already is a cure. Gay men only need to stop sticking their p*nises in other men's a**es!
Dammit, Mr. Shaggy, coffee all over my my monitor! Thats the funniest post of the day!
Interesting "profile":
http://www.allscifi.com/aridor/index.asp?Autonumber=588
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