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AIDS Protesters Head to White House (storm Family Research Council Office, too.)
WJLA-TV ^ | November 7, 2005

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: family; healthcare; hivaids; homosexualagenda
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Note that the protestors have attacked the Family Resource Council offices. There's not much coverage at Google News, yet.
1 posted on 11/07/2005 9:40:39 AM PST by hocndoc
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To: hocndoc

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR05K05

Here's the FRC Press Release.


2 posted on 11/07/2005 9:41:54 AM PST by hocndoc ( http://www.lifeethics.org Vote For Proposition 2 Nov 8 Defend law, not just marriage.)
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To: hocndoc

Funny that one answer for "ending AIDS" is to stop "ending" in the first place....


3 posted on 11/07/2005 9:42:03 AM PST by r9etb
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To: hocndoc
There's not much coverage at Google News
I'm stunned!...(/sarcasm)
Remember WE are the hate filled ones....
4 posted on 11/07/2005 9:42:23 AM PST by GrandEagle
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To: hocndoc

I'm thinking of all the other diseases starved of research money thanks to the anal sex lobby.


5 posted on 11/07/2005 9:43:43 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: hocndoc

More money spent on this 100% preventable disease than any other disease. UGGGGHHHHH!!!


6 posted on 11/07/2005 9:46:06 AM PST by Mikey_1962
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To: hocndoc
I can remember when AIDS was first discovered, that the ONLY advice that could be given at the time to avoid it, 100%, WAS abstinence. (which is still true today) It's amazing how far our country has come that even in the "movement" itself, talk of abstinence is now akin to gay bashing.
7 posted on 11/07/2005 9:48:14 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: hocndoc

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 .


8 posted on 11/07/2005 9:48:26 AM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: hocndoc

30-150 protestors....


9 posted on 11/07/2005 9:49:18 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun

"30-150 protestors...."

That quite an easily identifiable gap. 30-150?


10 posted on 11/07/2005 9:51:36 AM PST by L98Fiero
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To: anniegetyourgun

I'm not sure how many chained themselves to the FRC building.


11 posted on 11/07/2005 9:52:13 AM PST by hocndoc ( http://www.lifeethics.org Vote For Proposition 2 Nov 8 Defend law, not just marriage.)
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Campaign to End AIDS

Since the only way to end AIDS is to end 'gay' behavior wouldn't this group qualify as a hate organization?

12 posted on 11/07/2005 9:55:35 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: FourtySeven

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?


13 posted on 11/07/2005 9:59:02 AM PST by hocndoc ( http://www.lifeethics.org Vote For Proposition 2 Nov 8 Defend law, not just marriage.)
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To: hocndoc
We now have Tuberculosis that is resistant to 6 or more antibiotics because of those politics.

That's a good point. I keep forgetting that, and I'm in the biological field!

14 posted on 11/07/2005 10:02:23 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: Nightshift

ping a ling...


15 posted on 11/07/2005 10:02:59 AM PST by tutstar (OurFlorida.true.ws)
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To: Semper Paratus
yep. Young children with cancer (no fault of their own) suffer because the perverts divert all the money away from cancer research.
16 posted on 11/07/2005 10:04:30 AM PST by Mulch (tm)
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To: little jeremiah; DirtyHarryY2K

ping


17 posted on 11/07/2005 10:07:30 AM PST by tutstar (OurFlorida.true.ws)
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To: r9etb

"one answer for "ending AIDS" is to stop "ending" in the first place..."


Guns don't kill people, 'tsilgate parties' kill people...


18 posted on 11/07/2005 10:10:12 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: hocndoc
The world has really gone to hell when people are chaining themselves in protest over "abstinence teaching"...

Good gosh...where oh where has my country gone??? The one that was all into "wait until marriage" and "sex is for grown-ups", and "good girls don't do that"...

It worked for me....
19 posted on 11/07/2005 10:10:31 AM PST by Txsleuth (I am the real TXSLEUTH...please freepmail me if you doubt it.)
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To: hocndoc
A woman I went to school with was infected with HIV through a blood transfusion back in the early 80s. She had a rare blood disorder which had necessitated the transfusion.

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.

20 posted on 11/07/2005 10:21:38 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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