This is a January 1995 file photo of U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass. Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, died early Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006 at Boston Medical Center, a hospital official said. He was 69. (AP Photo/Tory Wesnofske)
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Posted on 10/14/2006 7:20:42 AM PDT by melt
This is a January 1995 file photo of U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass. Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, died early Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006 at Boston Medical Center, a hospital official said. He was 69. (AP Photo/Tory Wesnofske)
Sadly, AIDS has become institutionalized as the cause celebre of diseased. We have always had to treat syphilis medically, but nobody ever crowed about having it.
We have become so browbeaten by political corectness that we will never recover from it. The operative word is Political.
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