Posted on 11/07/2005 9:40:39 AM PST by hocndoc
Washington D.C. - Protesters have launched four days of demonstrations against U.S. AIDS policy in the District.
Some supporters of the Campaign to End AIDS have gathered at the headquarters of the Family Research Council. A few of the demonstrators reportedly have chained themselves to objects inside the office building at 7th and G Streets, Northwest.
Members of the group oppose the government's promotion of abstinence from sexual activity as a substitute for sex education.
Organizers of the protests have been working with U.S. Park Police. A spokesman for the department says about 150 of them plan to demonstrate in Lafayette Park near the White House around noon time.
As many as 30 members of the group could take part in a "die-in," where Protesters are planning to gather outside the White House staging a makeshift "graveyard" as a memorial to those who have died from HIV and AIDS.
Sizable demonstrations in Lafayette Park have been prohibited in recent years, and Park Police could make arrests.
It's estimated that one in 20 D.C. residents is infected.
Copyright 2005 WJLA-TV
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR05K05
Here's the FRC Press Release.
Funny that one answer for "ending AIDS" is to stop "ending" in the first place....
I'm thinking of all the other diseases starved of research money thanks to the anal sex lobby.
More money spent on this 100% preventable disease than any other disease. UGGGGHHHHH!!!
The campaign to stop AIDS doesnt want to discuss abstinence, the only bulletproof way to stop it.
Let me tell you a secret fruits, There is no magic way for Aids to go away. When you poke your friend who has it chances are you will get it too. Now I can repeat that again if you like but all the sex education in the world isnt going to change the facts. Oh they can tell you to use rubbers and wash after sex , they might even suggest you soak your whang in bleach, but abstinence works .
30-150 protestors....
"30-150 protestors...."
That quite an easily identifiable gap. 30-150?
I'm not sure how many chained themselves to the FRC building.
Since the only way to end AIDS is to end 'gay' behavior wouldn't this group qualify as a hate organization?
It took medicine a while to figure out the course of the disease. Then, the gay community reacted as though it was discrimination to state the obvious.
The problem was the refusal to shut down the bath houses and to educate the people most at risk -- obstruction by the very people who should have been the advocates.
For years, HIV/AIDs was treated as a political attack instead of a disease. We now have Tuberculosis that is resistant to 6 or more antibiotics because of those politics.
A disease is a disease is a disease.
Somehow, it's obscene to smoke, but condoms make sex acceptable?
That's a good point. I keep forgetting that, and I'm in the biological field!
ping a ling...
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"one answer for "ending AIDS" is to stop "ending" in the first place..."
Guns don't kill people, 'tsilgate parties' kill people...
What appalls me is that the very fact that the blood was tainted was caused by behaviors that these people don't think they should have to give up. It was only after she was diagnosed with HIV that studies began in earnest and massive efforts began to clean up the blood supply.
She was more gracious than I am. She spent the rest of her life trying to educate others about HIV/Aids. Someone's sexual behavior is what caused her eventual death.
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