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".
Friend: Oh yeah? How's that?
Gere: They feel really funky when you jam them up your ass.
Battery powered for safety, it would be hoped....nobody wants one of those methane poofs.
Hold it now I smell (no pun intended) a fake x-ray. That would have to be a Guinea pig judging by the size of it.
ROFDLMAOTIPIMP !
Snopes claims the gerbil incident is false. Even so, with Gere's history, he has no standing to reprimand Bush.
A very good friend used to travel to Europe and Asia until the 9/11 event. Then foreign travel became too much of a hassle.
About 5=6 years ago he was talking about the over the hill Follywood Nazi elites trashing America in the foreign capitals to extend their careers after they tanked in American.
They would schedule a press conference or at a concert attack America in a major foriegn city. Then, they would be on all of the talk tv/radio shows trashing America.
He said that this was SOP for most of the over the hill Follywood Nazi Elites when their career in America tanked or started to tank. They would ride the mutual hate America mantras in the foreign countries to sell their old movies, cds or concerts like pimps/whores.
He said the hate GW stuff during the 2000 election by the the over the hill Follywood Nazi Elites was incredible and went along with the hate GW spew in the media and politics of most of Europe and SE Asia.
Do note that Gere is yucking it up in China while Tibet is still an opressed state. I guess he feels bashing Bush to be a more worthy goal.
In real life is he like his character in Looking for Mr. Goodbar?
Exactly...what is Buddhist sex like? Does the Mothman figure in this somewhere?
That doesn't appear to be true. It looks like the pregnancy rate is falling in Texas, but the Teen birth rate has remained the same. The Teen Abortion Rate has been cut in half.
Somebody with better formatting skils than me should post the Texas results.
Hmm, why's Gere so concerned about the STD rate in Asian teens?
Gerbils? Wasn't he the gerbil fan?
Where's PETA when you need them. Who better to protect innocent pets from sexual abuse.
Hey, Richard, Leave the gerbils alone.
p.s. You ought to support Bush because gerbils come for the deserts of the Middle East. Your supply of new gerbils is now assured.
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