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".
I find ALL liberals and so-called libertarians having crybaby fits that some backwoods fundy bogeyman somewhere doesn't like what they do with their willies to be....a little peculiar. Fixated masturbation anxiety perhaps. Boo...hoo
How bizarre that you think I have anything to do with your visons of:
"crybaby fits that some backwoods fundy bogeyman somewhere doesn't like what they do with their willies to be....a little peculiar. Fixated masturbation anxiety ---
Good gawd man/mam, get a grip on sanity.
Gere is doing the whining. No idea why these types think we need their advice on such matters.
BendingAbsurdity wrote:
What link are you referring to?
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To: ambrose
Info from The Straight Dope.
76 posted on 07/18/2004 5:00:42 PM PDT by rabidralph (My pit bull drives an SUV.)
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To: The Libertarian Dude; tpaine
Like Richard Gere. Does it seem ironic for a Buddhist to be whining?
77 posted on 07/18/2004 5:04:35 PM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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"The Straight Dope" link you referred to at #76, in your post #77.
Why did you initiate a post to me on this thread?
Richard Gere can go the way of Patrick Leahy...
I'm out of the loop. What's this about a gerbil and Gere?
You obviously missed my similar disdain for ultra-liberal behavior-control freaks, HMBA. This isn't just about the "fundies". Both extremes seek control, according to their individual agendas.
But several conservatives, young and old, said the greatest division in the movement pitted young traditionalists against their more libertarian peers. David Weigel, 22, the former editor of a conservative magazine at Northwestern University, a contributor to the libertarian magazine Reason and an intern at the editorial page of USA Today, said that last spring his college paper had trouble finding any conservatives on campus who supported amending the constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
He contended that even young conservatives who maintained a strict moral code for themselves were increasingly reluctant to regulate the behavior of others. "I am personally abstinent," he said, "and I plan to stay that way, but I have no problem with international aid programs that use or distribute condoms."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173211/posts
That would be the guess.
Gere's a moron. You expected me to defend him?
To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity; randog; Everybody
But several conservatives, young and old, said the greatest division in the movement pitted young traditionalists against their more libertarian peers.
David Weigel, 22, the former editor of a conservative magazine at Northwestern University, a contributor to the libertarian magazine Reason and an intern at the editorial page of USA Today, --- contended that even young conservatives who maintained a strict moral code for themselves were increasingly reluctant to regulate the behavior of others.
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HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity wrote:
Good grief. Is this what has happened to the conservative movement? What a waste of time. What ever happened to cutting taxes and reforming education?
What on earth are these kids studying these days?
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tpaine: Perhaps they are studying the principles of our Republic, -- wherein the Founders contended that while eveyone should maintain a strict moral code for themselves, --- 'We the People' should be very reluctant to allow any level of government to regulate the behavior of others.
26 posted on 07/17/2004 1:48:38 PM PDT by tpaine (No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another. - T. Jefferson)
Nope. He's advancing a thesis on the topic you expressed some interest in before. No idea what your spin might be. Gere's not exactly a major figure in political philosophy I have ever spent much time studying. Looked like a classically absurd modern American culture farce.
I'm not "spinning" anything. And over in the Buckley thread, I pointed out my distaste for control freaks of both leftist and right-wing streaks.
OK. If there was any assumption I lumped you in a different category, that was certainly not intentional on this thread.
So? That post was made on an entirly different thread:
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What are you bugging me about here? What's your point?
Run a Google search or something, there is simply no inoffensive way to explain it.
But here goes anyhow: Gere enjoys suffocating gerbils by placing them somewhere in his body, he does this for sexual satisfaction.
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Number 96.
I await and look forward to your conversion. We'll all be praying for you.
God be with you, my son.
Another babbling fool that takes his country and security for granted. The billions of dollars being to eradicate terrorism and enhance our national security effects more than people with just aids. That billion dollars is being spent all-inclusively, even for the likes of "Dick" Gere. Going off to bang my head and rant some.
Richard Who? America is spending $15 billion on AIDS, more than the next twenty countries conbined and for Gere that's stingy. After decades of "responsible sex" propaganda that is nothing of the sort, abstinence education takes time. I mean liberals have spent billions on programs that have demonstrably failed for decades. And yet abstinence is an idea that has been around for only a few years. No one has ever died abstaining from casual sex. The rest of the world would be a lot better off than it does if it followed that logic. All one can really say from Gere's attacks on the Bush Administration's approach to AIDS is Hollywood celebrities are the last people on Earth we should look to for advice about life and death decisions.
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